'Plastics Crisis' Costs $1.5T Annually, Study Says: 'World Cannot Recycle Its Way Out'

Plastics production has increased 200-fold since 1950 with huge impacts on health

The huge surge highlights the ‘under-recognised danger’ of plastics in damage to health, climate change impacts and planet-wide pollution The post Plastics production has increased 200-fold since 1950 with huge impacts on health appeared first on Macao News.

Plastic causing “disease and death from infancy to old age” that costs $1.5 trillion a year, report warns

(CBS News) – 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. The new review of existing evidence, which was carried out by leading health researchers and doctors, was published one day ahead of fresh talks in Geneva aiming at getting the world’s first treaty on plastic pollution. The experts called …

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 1…