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Links to News and Studies on the Potential Harms from Plastic

Microplastics

  • Breathing Plastic: the health impacts of invisible plastic in the air
  • Microplastics cause damage to human cells, study says
  • The little-known unintended consequence of recycling plastic
  • Microplastics are in our bodies. How much do they harm us?
  • Microplastics in Bottled Water
  • Detection of microplastics in human lung tissue
  • Microplastics found in blood for first time
  • Baby bottles shed microplastic when heated. Should you be worried?
  • Research shows microplastics spread across entire bay in New Zealand

Toxic chemicals:

  • Hazardous chemicals in recycled and reusable plastic food packaging
  • Forever Toxic: the science of health threats from plastic recycing
  • Plastic products leach chemicals that induce in vitro toxicity under realistic use conditions
  • Why phthalates should be banned from consumer products
  • Plastics pose a threat to human health
  • 7 Harmful Chemical Types in Plastic
  • More chemicals fewer words: mixtures during pregnancy alters brain development
  • A plastic chemical you can’t escape is linked to cancer in children
  • Hormone-disrupting ‘forever chemicals,’ phthalates may impair bone health in male teens, study
  • Why black plastic is bad news

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