Plastics 'crisis' is costing $1.5tn in global deaths from heart failure to dementia new report confirms
Less than 10% of plastic is recycled
Plastic set to triple to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060
More than 16,000 chemicals used in plastics, many not regulated
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Plastic pollution 'grave and growing' health threat: Lancet
Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday.
