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New study uncovers disturbing side effects of drinking from plastic water bottles: 'A relatively new discovered … hazard'

The research, published in the BMC Genomics journal, showed that small particles of polyethylene terephthalate plastic, or ...
VegOut Magazine

Scientists discovered a disease that only exists because of plastic, and it's already scarring wildlife from the inside

Plasticosis, first identified in seabirds, causes permanent digestive tract damage and represents a new category of fibrotic ...
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Why it's time to ditch plastic food containers - and what to use instead

Microplastics Are Invading Your Meals - and Your Body Here's something that might make you rethink tonight's dinner. 11 billion nanoplastic particles from just one square centimeter during three ...
The Atlantic

I Fought Plastic. Plastic Won.

I used to love my Teflon pans. I crisped tofu, fried latkes, and reduced sauces to sticky glazes in them, marveling at how cleanup never took more than a swipe of a sponge. Then I started to worry ...
AOL

Eating from Plastic Takeout Containers Can Cause ‘Extensive’ Heart Damage, Increase Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Eating from plastic takeout containers can increase your risk of congestive heart failure, and “even short-term exposure” to particles leaching into food or liquid from plastic can “can induce changes ...