We cannot escape from exposure to plastic and its toxic chemicals. More than 16,000 chemicals are used to give plastic its extraordinary material qualities. Half of these have never been tested for human safety. Many are known endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), causing infertility, cancer, cognitive disorders and auto-immune diseases.

Thousands of peer-reviewed research reports have been published, and yet there is still no global regulation to stop this threat to humankind. Instead, plastic production is set to treble by 2040. Nothing adequate is happening to stem the plastic tide, minimise the damage to the future of our children, and of the planet. Legislators and regulators must make the necessary and fundamental systemic changes to change the course we are on and combat the excesses of the plastics industry.

The scientists are clear. We have the evidence.

Now we need to act.