N° 2 – August 2017
Monthly Electronic Newsletter of Sertox (Latin-American Portal of Toxicology) – Year 1

8.3b tonnes of plastic causing near permanent contamination of natural environment. Since the 1950s humans have produced over 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic out of which a majority of used plastic ends up in landfills or in the oceans, a new report has suggested. Findings of the first global analysis of mass-produced plastics found that plastic had outstripped most man-made materials and threatened a “near permanent contamination of the natural environment.” Read more in tribune.com.pk. There are more articles in this number. JCP