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Plastic emissions could double health damage by 2040

· By Jeannette Cwienk
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Plastic is everywhere. Inside the human body, in the depths of the ocean and the far reaches of the Arctic. Now a new study warns that, unless the world changes course, plastic could more than double its damage to human health within the next two decades.

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