Plastics, Fossil Carbon, and the Heart

被引：3
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作者：
Landrigan, Philip J. [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Boston Coll, Global Publ Hlth & Common Good, Boston, MA 02467 USA
[2] Ctr Sci Monaco, Monaco, Monaco
来源：
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE | 2024年 / 390卷 / 10期
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D O I：
10.1056/NEJMe2400683
中图分类号：
R5 [内科学];
学科分类号：
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要：
Plastics have enabled extraordinary advances in virtually every area of medicine and have made our lives immeasurably more convenient. Multiple lines of evidence now indicate, however, that plastics are neither as safe nor as inexpensive as they seem. The benefits of plastics come at great and increasingly visible costs to human health and the environment. Plastics are manufactured chemical materials.1 Fossil fuels - gas, oil, and coal - are the main feedstocks of plastics, and fossil carbon corporations such as ExxonMobil are their principal producers. Plastics comprise a polymer matrix plus thousands of chemical additives that impart such properties as . . .
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