Plastic Is Poison: The $1.5 Trillion Health Crisis

A powerful new report published in The Lancet warns that plastic pollution is a “grave, growing, and under-recognized danger” to human health, costing the world at least $1.5 trillion annually. The review reveals how plastic harms people from infancy to old age—linking it to widespread disease, death, and long-term impacts still unknown. As microplastics spread through nature and our bodies, the report calls on global leaders to finally agree on a binding treaty to reduce plastic production, now projected to triple by 2060.