Plastic pollution is a “severe, growing and low-recognized threats” for health that is giving the world a cost of at least $ 1.5 trillion per year, A Report Published on Monday in the Lancet Medical Journal.
The new review of the existing evidence, which was performed by major health researchers and doctors, was published a day before the latest conversation in Geneva, which aims to achieve the world’s first treaty on plastic pollution. Experts called representatives from about 180 countries, who expected to attend the gathering to agree on a treaty after previous unsuccessful efforts.
Report has been stated Effect on health Plastic pollution can be reduced by laws and policies.
“Plastic infancy causes illness and death from old age and is responsible for health -related economic losses more than $ 1.5 trillion annually,” it said.
The report stated that the recent umbrella review of epidemiology research on the health effects of plastic chemicals. “All stages of human life showed frequent evidence for many health effects in all stages of human life” and found that infants and young children were specifically risk, the report has said in the report. “These effects impaired fertility (eg, polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis), perineatal effects (eg, miscarriage, low birth time, and genital organs distortions), low cognitive functions (eg, intelligence quotation loss), insulin resistance, hypertension, hypertension, hypertension, and in adults.”
In response to the report, a doctor and researcher Philip Landrigan, a Boston College, said in a statement, “It is alert to us to work in response.” “For those meetings in Geneva: Please take an opportunity to find a challenge and common land that will enable meaningful and effective international cooperation in response to this global crisis.”
Researchers also warned about small pieces of plastic Microplastics It has been found throughout nature – and throughout the human body. The full effect of microplastics on health is not yet fully known, but researchers have played an alarm about the potential effect of this omnipresent plastic.
The report said that the amount of plastic produced by the world has increased from two million tonnes in 1950 to 475 million tonnes in 2022.
This number is estimated to triple by 2060, yet currently recycled less than 10 percent of all plastic, it is added.
Plastic fossil is made of fuel, and Landrigan stated that the world’s plastic “crisis” is associated with its climate crisis.
Landrigan said, “Do not understand the horrors of both climate crisis and plastic crisis.”
“Both of them are causing illness, death and disability in both thousands of people, and these disadvantages will become more serious in the coming years because the planet is hot and plastic production continues to increase.”
Haley Oat contributed to this report.
