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- Plastic causing disease and death from infancy to old age, report warns
Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1 5 trillion a year, a report published Monday in the Lancet medical journal said
- New report highlights plastic pollution as a grave and growing danger . . .
The new report chronicles the human health impacts of plastics and plastic pollution from infancy to old age, and highlights the significant health-related economic costs
- Global ‘plastic crisis costing $1. 5 trillion per year in human health . . .
According to the report, plastics present a danger to human health that's costing the world at least $1 5 trillion every year, causing "disease and death from infancy to old age "
- New report calls plastics a “grave” danger to health as nations . . .
By Brian Bienkowski Plastics are a “grave” danger to humans and the planet, responsible for an estimated $1 5 trillion annually in health-related costs, and nations need to center human health as they finalize the global plastics treaty, scientists said in a new report released Monday
- Plastic pollution grave and growing health threat: Lancet
Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1 5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday
- The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics
Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually These impacts fall disproportionately upon low-income and at-risk populations The principal driver of this crisis is accelerating growth in plastic
- Plastics a ‘grave’ danger to health, scientists warn before UN talks
The report coincides with the launch of an independent global monitor, the Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics, to track plastic pollution’s impact
- Announcing The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics
This new report chronicles the impacts of plastics and plastic pollution for disease and death from infancy to old age, and highlights the significant health-related economic costs
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