US EditionPlastic Causing "Disease and Death From Infancy to Old Age" that Costs $1.5 Trillion a Year, Report Warns
GLOBAL, AUG 4 – Plastic pollution causes $1.5 trillion in health damages annually, driven by production, toxic chemicals, and open waste burning in low- and middle-income countries, experts say.
- In Paris on Aug 4, the Lancet review warned plastic pollution is costing the world at least US$1.5 trillion annually, experts reported in a recent study.
- The report noted that plastic production has increased by more than 200 times since 1950 and will almost triple again to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060.
- Experts reported that microplastics have been found in human tissues and body fluids, and tiny fragments under 5 mm contaminate air, water, soil, blood, lungs, and placentas.
- Consequently, 57 of unmanaged plastic waste is burned in the open, releasing dioxins that cause respiratory and immune system damage in low- and middle-income countries.
- At the talks, delegates from nearly 180 nations were urged to agree a treaty, and Dr Philip J Landrigan emphasized that evidence-based laws can mitigate plastics harms cost-effectively.
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A global “plastic crisis” costs $1.5 billion a year as they attempt to cope with the escalation of injuries, disability and death caused by the substance that pollutes our land, sea, and bodies, according to a new report from a first medical journal. Plastic production is in operation in 2060, less than 10% is recycled, and about 8,000 megatons now contaminate the planet, according to a review of recent studies published on Sunday by Lancet. Thi…
PLASTIC POLLUTION LINKED TO $1.5T IN WORLDWIDE HEALTH COSTS
Mon 04 August 2025: Plastic pollution causes more than $1.5 trillion in health-related economic damage annually and contributes to disease and death at every stage of life, according to a new review published on Sunday in the medical journal The Lancet. “The world is in a plastics crisis,” the authors wrote. “But it is not […]
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