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Action urged over plastic pollution in blood

• mdp2021 4y ago
  > The UK Government has been urged to fund research into the human health impact of plastic pollution[... - ]to implement a £15 million National Plastic Health Impact Research Fund > The petition is the result of groundbreaking research by Common Seas which found that 77 per cent of people tested had plastic in their blood [...] studies have shown that plastic particles have been found widely in our food, drink, and the air we breathe > Human exposure to plastic pollution is set to increase as global production of plastic is on course to double by 2030