Telegraph Letter: Plastic Health Risks

There is a cost to healthcare systems around the globe that is seldom discussed: plastic. 

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals in plastics can impair sperm quality and fertility; cause cancers, endometriosis, early puberty, neurological and learning disabilities, and abnormalities in sex organs; affect growth as well as nervous system and immune function; and lead to diverse respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Such impacts cost the US alone at least $250 billion in 2018. 

A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine also reports a substantially raised risk of stroke, heart attack and earlier death in people whose blood vessels were contaminated with microscopic plastics.

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