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How plastics are poisoning us
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How plastics are poisoning us

Plastics release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them? Elizabeth Kolbert writes for The New Yorker

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plastics are poisoning us
BigStock Photo ID: 476208333
Copyright: Svetlozar Hristov
Available for extended license use

How plastics are poisoning us

They both release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them?
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