During ‘plastic-free July’, aim to say no to single-use items such as toothpaste tubes, soap containers and plastic wrapped in plastic
Image:It is not often that a person can start a personal challenge and it ends up a global event, but that is exactly what Rebecca Prince Ruiz did when she started Plastic Free July.
On March 2 the UN Environmental Assembly joined the campaign to protect the environment via a global resolution to end single-use plastic pollution. The entire life cycle of plastics is to be focused upon by the move towards alternatives and enabling investment in a circular design. Of concern is the contribution of plastic production, the use — especially single-use — and the disposal thereof, as even recycling plastic has an ecological footprint.
Other studies found that microplastics can latch to the outer membranes of red blood cells and can cross the blood-brain and placental barriers. This intimate exposure could affect hormonal, neurological and metabolic activity in humans.