While most of us have been focusing on goals related to decreasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, a subset of scientists have been eying another villain. Now word from the Plastic Health Summit 2021 is that we have nine years to save the world from irreparable plastic-wrought damage. Plastic Soup Foundation organized the one-day summit, held last Thursday, Oct. 21 in Amsterdam. Maria Westerbos, director of Plastic Soup Foundation, demanded that the World Health Organization declare that plastic waste is a public health emergency. If we don’t act now, she said, the harm caused by plastic pollution — both to the planet and to human health — will be irreversible by 2030. Plastic Soup Foundation is based in the Netherlands. Its mission statement begins, “Stop the plastic soup tsunami as soon as possible!”
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— source inhabitat.com | Oct 25, 2021