The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health
Landrigan PJ, Raps H, Cropper M, et al. (2023). Annals of Global Health.
What they found
A large commission review of plastics' harms across their life cycle, from extraction and production to disposal, covering human health, the ocean, economic costs and vulnerable groups, with recommendations for a global plastics treaty.
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Correction (Annals of Global Health, 2023, doi 10.5334/aogh.4331): its figure of 90,762 DEHP-attributable US deaths a year among 55–64-year-olds, and the linked US$490 billion cost, was the sum of two years (2013 and 2014), not one year.
- What it can't tell you
- Narrative review and first-order cost estimates, not a systematic review. Health-cost figures rest on attributable-fraction assumptions, and one key mortality figure was later corrected.
- Funding
- Minderoo Foundation, Centre Scientifique de Monaco and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation; seven authors list a Minderoo Foundation affiliation
- Topics
- Health effects, Chemicals
- Checked against
- Abstract (Europe PMC, PMID 36969097, PMC10038118); correction full text (PMC10573651)