One of the world’s worst plastic polluters, Indonesia just launched the first of a string of Living Labs to help local people lift themselves out of a ‘plastic waste emergency’.South East Asia’s biggest nation, Indonesia pumps out 11.5 million tonnes
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Whitehall should fund urgent research on health impact of plastic, experts say
LONDON, July 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ MORE than 80 pre-eminent scientists, campaigners and MPs will today call on the Government to fund urgent research into the health impact of plastic waste.
The research fund is the brainchild of social enterprise Common Seas and is backed by leading charities Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and the National Federation of Women s Institutes.
Writing in an open letter to the Prime Minister, experts have today called on the Government to ringfence £15 million for a National Plastic Health Impact Research Fund.
In recent years, more evidence has suggested that plastic poses a threat to human health.