In the soup?

I am no great defender of plastic. But it is hard to imagine how we would exist without it and, that said, cease to use it.

Hence I tend to approach efforts like this with eyebrow-cocked: Warning on plastic's toxic threat

There's no doubt that the stuff is not great once it moves from its first use and gets disposed of.

But all the media/PR effort seems to ignore the main issue, which is correct disposal.

And, frankly, most of us are powerless in this regard, and hence there is little we can DO.

Hence a piece like this seems to be rather pointless other than being another 'woe is us' piece that gets a bunch of folk on a nice (if polluted) island to raise 'awareness'.

I can't see the value as a consumer news piece unless there is some connection to mitigation made.

However the science is interesting, and I do wonder how some of this relates to the effects of so-called 'biodegradables', which are often touted as 'solutions', but as matter can neither be created or destroyed do simply cease to be visible. The potential negative impact remains.