New report the day for UN top: plastic pollution is “serious and increasing” health threat

Plastic pollution is a “serious, increasing and underestimated threat”, which costs at least $ 1,500 billion annually worldwide (1,297 billion euros). This is evident on Monday from an overview study published in the medical trade journal ‘The Lancet’. The study appears the day before the start of the final round of UN negotiations on a global treaty for plastic pollution.

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