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The Need for New Strategies to Protect Human Health in the Age of Plastics
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This chapter reviews how plastic production and microplastic contamination are undermining planetary and human health, critically evaluates the failures of recycling as a solution, and calls on faith communities and civil society to respond to plastic pollution as an urgent moral and ecological crisis.
This chapter highlights how plastics increasingly affect the planet and human health, and critically examines the failures of recycling. Faith communities and civil society are urged to commit, acknowledging the gravity of plastic pollution and responding to it with urgent actions.
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