Norwegian-Swiss research team has ID'd "more than 16,000 chemicals in plastic products in the first comprehensive database of all known plastic chemicals [it hopes will inform] international negotiations for a treaty to curb plastic use & production"
“at least 25% of these are chemicals of concern [with] tendency to persist without degrading, ability to build up in [living] organisms, mobility through the environment & toxicity"
“We need a systemic political solution.”