Plastics: A crime against humanity

Plastics used to be an aesthetics issue, we simply didn’t like the look of rubbish bags blowing around our streets, but now it has become a public health issue.

Plastics: A crime against humanity

Plastics used to be an aesthetics issue, we simply didn’t like the look of rubbish bags blowing around our streets, but now it has become a public health issue.

Plastics have been documented in marine life from the digestive tracts of whales to the respiratory systems of turtles. Plastics have entered the food chain and therefore, the human system.

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