The warning was made in an article published by the British Medical Journal by leading plastic pollution researchers from the Revolution Plastics Institute at the University of Portsmouth. Professor Steve Fletcher and Dr Cressida Bowyer were both at what was expected to be the final round of plastics treaty negotiations in Busan in December, which concluded without an agreement, pushing discussions into 2025. With the world’s annual plastic production at 400 million tonnes and projected to double by 2040, the article stresses the crucial role that healthcare professionals now have.…
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