More than 4,000 plastic chemicals are hazardous, report finds

More on plastophobia and plastics related alarmism and hysteria! 

This kind of shrill alarmism about plastics has been going on since at least the 1960s! We should be all dead now!

Of course, 8 billion humans on planet Earth use a lot of plastic. Certainly, we can do better to minimize or reuse plastic trash etc.

Hopefully, one day soon, we will discovery a better substitute! Let's double the efforts! Until then ...

Sometimes extreme experiments defying any reality are used to demonstrate the toxicity of plastic and so on.

"After a year of trawling through scientific reports and national regulatory databases, scientists funded by the Norwegian Research Council have compiled a list of more than 16,000 ‘plastic chemicals’ — compounds found in plastics or thought to be used in them, including raw ingredients and additives such as stabilizers and colourants.

Of these, at least 4,200 are “persistent, bioaccumulative, mobile and/or toxic”, the group found. That “is quite staggering”, says lead author Martin Wagner, an environmental toxicologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The group also discovered that hazard data were unavailable for more than 10,000 chemicals, and for more than 9,000 there was no publicly available information about which plastics they are used in. ...
The report was released on 14 March, in time for the next round of negotiations for a United Nations treaty on global plastic pollution. ...

The report notes that although nearly 1,000 concerning chemicals are regulated by global efforts such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, more than 3,600 are not. The authors assign these chemicals to a ‘red list’ that should be regulated, they argue. “The message is very clear,” says Wagner, who is a member of the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, a grass-roots group that has formed to advise the treaty process.  ..."

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More than 4,000 plastic chemicals are hazardous, report finds Year-long effort compiles comprehensive database of chemicals in plastics.