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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-08-04 05:29:32+00:00.

Original Title: World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns. Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet.