'We cannot continue allowing oil companies to poison our air, bodies, and climate with their toxic product.'
to help justify increased production. And plastic waste may be just the tip of the iceberg. Before all of the needless plastic products and packaging oil companies make even reach the waste stream, they've already done countless damage to communities near sites of production and to consumers.
To make plastic out of oil, petrochemical plants release toxic air pollution that saddles nearby communities with inordinate negative health impacts, communities which areIf plastic production increases as planned, these communities will be subject to even more dangerous air pollution than they already grapple with.
Once the plastic is made, it enters the market where consumers become the next group of humans put at risk by dirty oil in the form of petrochemical plastic. Unless you live on the dark side of the moon, where presumably it's not yet a problem, then you've probably heard of. How plastic things fall apart into little pieces, each shred smaller than the last. How scientists can't seem to find a place on the planet that's not teeming with microplastics.
As they examine the toxic impacts of petrochemical plastics, scientists are beginning to warn that it's not looking good for us., the more that dangers are discovered. Plastic contains many toxic chemicals, and it turns out many of those chemicals are moving from the plastic into our bodies. That plastic soda bottle you drank out of last week? Odds are good that the chemical used as a catalyst in the bottle making process has made its way into the soda.
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