World in $1.5 Trillion 'Plastics Crisis' Hitting Health From Infancy To Old Age, Report Warns

Plastics are a 'grave, growing and under-recognised danger' to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. From a report: The world is in a 'plastics crisis,' it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5 trillion a year in health-related damages. The driver of the crisis is a huge acceleration of plastic production, which has increased by more than 200 times since 1950 and is set to almost triple again to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060.

Plastic pollution has also soared, with 8 billion tonnes now polluting the entire planet, the review said, from the top of Mount Everest to the deepest ocean trench. Less than 10% of plastic is recycled.

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