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Plastics also release toxic chemicals into the environment and cause physical, chemical harm and biological damage to organisms. Ingestion of plastic does not only lead to death in animals through intestinal blockage but it can also travel up the food chain which affects humans. [101]
Larger plastics (called "macroplastics") such as plastic shopping bags can clog the digestive tracts of larger animals when consumed by them [13] and can cause starvation through restricting the movement of food, or by filling the stomach and tricking the animal into thinking it is full. Microplastics on the other hand harm smaller marine life.
Over 700 marine species, including half of the world’s cetaceans (such as whales and dolphins), all of its sea turtles, and a third of its seabirds, are known to ingest plastic.
Plastic water bottles have been wreaking havoc on the environment for years, but now scientists are saying that you shouldn't use them at all if you don't want to wreak havoc on your own health ...
He later discovers that plastics contain chemicals such as phthalates that can carry adverse effects to newborn babies, including decreased anogenital distance. Berrier reflects on the rising rates of male infertility and other such as diabetes , obesity and attention deficit disorder , linking it to the ever-present problem of plastics.
Microplastics are plastic fragments larger than 0.2 inches (5 millimeters), while nanoplastics are particles smaller than 0.00004 inches (1 nanometer). Researchers think plastic is accumulating ...
To-day and To-morrow (sometimes written Today and Tomorrow) was a series of 110 [citation needed] speculative essays published as short books by the London publishers Kegan Paul between 1923 and 1931 (and published in the United States by E. P. Dutton, New York). [1] As Fredric Warburg proudly recalled in 1959: It was a unique publishing event.
Members agreed that the treaty will be international in scope, legally binding, and should address the full life cycle of plastics, including its design, production, and disposal. [4] It has been argued that chemicals contained in plastics such as additives, processing aids, and unintentionally added substances need to be addressed, too.