{"id":219367,"date":"2025-08-04T08:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/plastic-pollution-grave-and-growing-health-threat-lancet"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:08:08","slug":"plastic-pollution-grave-and-growing-health-threat-lancet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/plastic-pollution-grave-and-growing-health-threat-lancet","title":{"rendered":"Plastic pollution \u2018grave and growing\u2019 health threat: Lancet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plastic-pollution-grave-and-growing-health-threat-lancet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plastic pollution is a \u201cgrave, growing and under-recognized danger\u201d to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The new review of the existing evidence, which was carried out by leading health researchers and doctors, was published one day ahead of fresh talks opening in Geneva aiming to seal the world\u2019s first treaty on plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1.5 trillion annually,\u201d said the <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0140673625014473\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> in <i>The Lancet<\/i> medical journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic pollution is a \u201cgrave, growing and under-recognized danger\u201d to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday. The new review of the existing evidence, which was carried out by leading health researchers and doctors, was published one day ahead of fresh talks opening [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,5,1495,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-health","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}