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Plastic Pollution ‘Severe and Increased’ Health Threat: Lancet

Large quantities of plastic rubbish can be observed on the port coast at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, November 19, 2018-Reuters Plastic pollution is a “grave, growing and degraded risk” for health that costs the world at least $ 1.5 trillion a year, experts warned a report on Monday. The new review of existing data, conducted by leading researchers and health doctors, was published one day in front of new talks in Geneva with the aim of sealing the world’s first treaty on plastic pollution. “Plastics cause illness and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health