The public health risks of plastic

This impasse came despite momentum, or at least a sense of urgency, around the need to address plastic pollution not just to protect the environment, but to safeguard human health.

In a stark warning published in The Lancet ahead of the talks, leading health researchers and doctors called plastic pollution a “grave, growing and underrecognized danger” to public health that was costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year.

“Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age,” the researchers wrote, pointing to links between exposures to plastics and plastic chemicals to reduced human fertility, increased risks of miscarriages and birth defects, as well as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. #muovit #plastics #Health #terveys

Kaikki meidät on kontaminoitu. Muovia ja ties mitä ylimääräisiä aineita meissä jo on. #contaminated #muovit

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opinion/contamination-exposome.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

RT @yministerio: EU:n laajuinen rajoitus vähentää mikromuovien päästöjä ympäristöön! Esimerkiksi kosmetiikan valmistajien on korvattava tuotteidensa sisältämiä mikromuoveja ympäristölle turvallisemmilla vaihtoehdoilla.

🔗 Tiedote: https://ym.fi/-/eu-n-laajuinen-rajoitus-vahentaa-mikromuovien-paastoja-ymparistoon

#muovit #muovitiekartta @STM_Uutiset

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUkomissio/status/1651821090241486848