{"id":7637,"date":"2019-02-19T08:49:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:28:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:28:03","slug":"statement-new-report-finds-entire-lifecycle-of-plastics-a-threat-to-human-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/7637\/statement-new-report-finds-entire-lifecycle-of-plastics-a-threat-to-human-health\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT: New report finds entire lifecycle of plastics a threat to human health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciel.org\/plasticandhealth\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) examines the health impacts associated with plastics at every stage of their supply chain and lifecycle, and concludes that there is an immediate need to adopt a precautionary approach to protect humanity from the plastic pollution crisis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Key findings from the report include that:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plastics pose distinct risks to human health at every stage of their lifecycle, arising from harmful chemicals released during raw material extraction and manufacturing, exposure to chemical additives during use, and the pollution of the environment and our food that can result as plastics enter the waste stream. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microplastic particles, such as fragments and fibers, can enter the body through contact, ingestion, or inhalation, and may be contributing to a wide range of health impacts as a result of their small size and ability to penetrate tissues and cells, and as a consequence of the complex burdens of the chemicals they can carry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uncertainties and knowledge gaps, including an extreme lack of transparency, undermine the full assessment of health impacts, and prevent consumers, communities, and regulators from making informed decisions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>In response to the CIEL report findings, Sarah King, Greenpeace Canada\u2019s Head of Oceans &amp; Plastics campaign said:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPoliticians and corporate polluters have been ignoring the negative impacts of plastic on human health for far too long, maintaining the status quo and risking our health for the sake of profits. Plastic might be cheap, but we now know the true cost of it. It\u2019s not just our oceans and marine animals that are suffering from the plastic pollution crisis, it\u2019s all of us. For the sake of our health, knowing what we now know, we must adopt a precautionary principle and phase out these throwaway plastics for good. Corporations must reduce the production of throwaway plastics immediately and begin to move toward systems of refill and reuse. The health risk of the plastic pollution crisis must <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be at the forefront of all decisions on plastics moving forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To read the entire report, please click <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciel.org\/plasticandhealth\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>https:\/\/www.ciel.org\/plasticandhealth\/<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-30-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>For more information, please contact: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philippa Duchastel de Montrouge, Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:pduchast@greenpeace.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pduchast@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, +1 (514) 929-8227 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; A new report from the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) examines the health impacts associated with plastics at every stage of their supply chain and lifecycle,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":7644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,71],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-sustainably","tag-consumption","tag-plastic","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7639,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}