https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214993719300089
Beware of claims that plastics can be recycled and are thus innocuous to human and creature and environmental health. Yes, closed loop recycling works wherever plastic alternatives will simply not be manageable. But we need a ban on all careless use of plastics globally ASAP. There are extremely few rare applications for when plastics use are relevant and necessary. Can you name a few?
According to Google October 26, 2023:
Although the use of plastics in automobile manufacturing debuted before WW2, by the 1950s most cars were still made entirely out of steel. However, over the decades that followed, plastics became favourable due to their low-cost, lighter weight, and increased safety during an accident compared to an all-steel frame.
It is only imperative that plastics be used in certain makes of Marine Grade Hardware and Equipment, such as Pelican Cases that float in water, protecting expensive equipment like non-waterproof film photography equipment, cell phones, cameras, scientific measuring instruments, etc. Only where synthetic textiles and plastics are employed to withstand corrosive environments (such as ocean salt), to enhance floatation and imperviousness to salt water, generally, the qualities of plastics and synthetic fibres lend themselves well to certain specific Marine applications only. As a whole, plastics should be treated as hazardous materials, due to
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304389420305859
According to Google October 26, 2023:
Some VOCs are known carcinogens, meaning they can cause cancer in people. Others are suspected carcinogens, meaning they are thought to cause cancer in people, but more research is needed. For example: Benzene is known to cause leukemia, especially acute myelogenic leukemia.
It is said by doctors that my late Dad died of bone marrow cancer - very likely he was exposed to benzenes from things like synthetic carpet, vinyl placemats, plastic kettles, plastics in automobiles and boats, deep freezers lined with plastic, drinking out of plastic thermos cups, party cups, etc due to his "sports fishing habit"and our general ignorance of how harmful they could turn out to be. Early in our new immigrant lives in Nanaimo, BC, there was not yet an effluent treatment centre removing dioxins at our local pulp mills, but at least now, in Cedar BC, there is. We ate seafood because it was "free" for the harvest and my parents and our family friends were willing to work to harvest it. The sad thing is, it didn't seem to take very much exposure to such VOCs to compromise my late Dad's health after only 67 years of life.
It is said by doctors that my late Mom died of breast cancer, too. Same might be said about her history of exposure; she died at 68, about a year and a half after my late Dad's death.