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‘Tsunami’ of plastic damaging health must be stopped, scientists warn UN

Dr John Peterson Myers, chief scientist at Environmental Health Sciences and member of the Plastic Health Council, which organised the letter, said: “What began as an almost invisible trickle near the beginning of the 20th century now in the 21st has become a monstrous tsunami.

“Plastic and plastic chemicals have spread like a scourge to every part of our planet, even inside us at levels known to be hazardous. Yet industry projections based on ‘business as usual’ anticipate the volume of plastics created will double by the mid-century.