Ever since, the world has had an almost insatiable hunger for plastics. This is because plastics’ structure—made up of repeating molecular units called monomers, which can be combined and ...

BC's Philip Landrigan, M.D., and the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health present a sweeping new report showing plastic as a hazard at every stage of its life cycle Philip Landrigan ...

The first statement is reasonable, but the second is not—for it disregards the extraordinary benefits that plastics, and the industry which produces them, have provided both to humans and to the ...

There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.” — Lily Tomlin ...

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