Plastic causing "disease and death from infancy to old age" that costs $1.5 trillion a year
Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, from a report in the Lancet medical journal.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plastic-pollution-health-crisis-disease-death/
August 4, 2025