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It’s a Plastic World. Part 2: The Plastic Pollution Crisis

Never let a crisis go to waste, even, or especially, if it’s a manufactured one. It’s “plastics versus our planet,” California Environmental Protection Agency secretary Yana Garcia tells the camera. Secretary Garcia invoked the memory of the first Earth Day commemoration to announce California’s new regulations on . In doing so, she mixed politics withContinue reading “It’s a Plastic World. Part 2: The Plastic Pollution Crisis”

It’s a plastic world

Micro- and nanoplastics, found in the plaque within our arteries, are born from the ubiquitous presence of plastics in our environment. They are raising eyebrows and heart rates among scientists and physicians, courtesy of a groundbreaking study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Plastic Plague: Unwelcome Guests in Your Arteries? (Chuck Dinerstein, MD,Continue reading “It’s a plastic world”