Quote:Plastics cause wide-ranging health issues from cancer to birth defects, landmark study finds
First analysis of plastics’ hazards over life cycle – from extraction to disposal – also shows ‘deep societal injustices’ of impact
Not just BPA etc. I am buying big, widemouth preserving jars (Ball brand or Mason jars) to put stuff in that goes into the freezer, e.g. see
https://rootsandboots.com/how-to-freeze-food-in-glass-jars If the jar has a shoulder measure the head space from the bottom of the shoulder, not the top of a jar. I will also preserve incl pressure canning food in these jars so they will be used heaps. Use airtight plastic lids, available from Amazon, for freezing.
Quote:Plastics are responsible for wide-ranging health impacts including cancers, lung disease and birth defects, according to the first analysis of the health hazards of plastics across their entire life cycle – from extraction for manufacturing, through to dumping into landfill and oceans.
Led by the Boston College Global Observatory on Planetary Health in partnership with Australia’s Minderoo Foundation and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco, the review found “current patterns of plastic production, use, and disposal are not sustainable and are responsible for significant harms to human health … as well as for deep societal injustices”.
“The main driver of these worsening harms is an almost exponential and still accelerating increase in global plastic production,” the analysis, published in the medical journal Annals of Global Health, found. “Plastics’ harms are further magnified by low rates of recovery and recycling and by the long persistence of plastic waste in the environment.”
The Great Pacific Garbage Dump, two floating rafts of plastic crap!
Quote:“Plastic production workers are at increased risk of leukaemia, lymphoma … brain cancer, breast cancer, mesothelioma … and decreased fertility. Plastic recycling workers have increased rates of cardiovascular disease, toxic metal poisoning, neuropathy, and lung cancer.”
Meanwhile, residents of communities adjacent to plastic production and waste disposal sites experience increased risks of premature birth, low birth weight, asthma, childhood leukaemia, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung cancer. The report referred to evidence that infants in the womb and young children were at particularly high risk.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/29/plastics-cause-wide-ranging-...Study the article is based on:
https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/10.5334/aogh.4056/ "This finding is consistent with broader epidemiological evidence of an association between phthalate exposure and increased blood pressure in children [298]."
"There is also extensive epidemiological information linking exposure to effects in humans, reviewed in Landrigan et al. [21] and in the Human Health section of this report (Section 4)."
"Epidemiological studies conducted among children born or living near fracking sites have found elevated rates of childhood cancer, especially leukemia, and congenital heart defects [996, 998]."
Epidemiological studies provide correlation. They DON'T provide causation.
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