Tag: Plastics
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Plastic pollution: why is it a public health problem and why Australia needs a plastic pollution policy
Dr Andrew Daltry, Dr Lea Merone, Dr Peter Tait, and Jeremy Lasek It was described as a ‘global pandemic’ long before COVID-19 rocked our world in early 2020. The so-called ‘plastic pandemic’ sees an estimated five trillion pieces of plastic in the world’s oceans right now and it can take…