Perils of plastics: Risks to human health and the environment

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(Arizona State University) Rolf Halden, associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University and assistant director of Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute has undertaken a survey of existing scientific literature concerning the hazards of plastics to human health and to the ecosystems we depend on.

His findings, which appear in latest issue of the Annual Review of Public Health, are sobering.

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