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Report: Recycling Plastic Can Increase Toxicity

  • #Waste & recycling
  • #Research
  • #United Kingdom
  • #Shopping
  • #Environment
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MAY 2023
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story last updated MAY 2023

The Spin

Narrative A

The plastics industry will continue to put forward plastic recycling and recycled content as the best way to resolve the global plastic crisis, distracting attention from the need to reduce overall plastic production and shifting the burden of dealing with plastic waste onto the consumers. The only real solution to ending plastic pollution is to first cap and later end plastic production — the world needs the UN's plastics treaty.

Wired

Narrative B

No evidence suggests ingesting plastic particles poses a real public health risk. Instead of denying people access to clean drinking water, safe food supplies, medical and personal care products, disrupting global supply chains, or substituting plastics with materials with a much higher carbon footprint in critical applications, the global community must conduct more research to establish if plastics are a threat or if the benefits greatly outweigh the costs.

Cancer Research UK

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