World in $1.5tn plastics crisis hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the LancetPlastics are a grave, growing and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a plastics crisis, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5tn (1.1tn) a year in health-related damages.The driver of the crisis is a huge acceler...