What Are the Health Impacts of Plastic? » Yale Climate Connections

It is neither the blades of your knives nor the bleach vapors that worry the most today in your kitchen, but these resealable plastic bags that we use without thinking about. We think they are practical, anodized, sometimes even reusable. Yet, as science reveals how much plastic can infiltrate our body, these everyday objects become a little less reassuring. Plastic bags in the collimator We slide them in our drawers, we store the remains, we tr…

Scientists are still investigating exactly how plastic additives and microplastics affect our bodies, but they're concerned about what they've discovered so far. The post "What are the health impacts of plastic?" first appeared on Yale Climate Connections.