Hi,

EARTHDAY‍.ORG is  pleased to present our first of five ‘plastic’ reports: Babies VS. Plastics.

This is a primer on plastics, microplastics and their additive chemicals in regards to how they impact children, with over 120 sources. It’s a guide for what every parent or prospective parent should know. The report captures what studies from around the world have been discovering about how babies ingest and inhale microplastics in their daily lives and why they are so especially susceptible to it. Plus, we cover how these tiny particles of plastics can bioaccumulate inside the major organs of the body, and what the health consequences might be.

Children seem to be especially are at risk from plastic exposure, in a world seemingly designed to force feed them microplastics: from the toys they teethe on to the clothes they wear, the playgrounds they spend time in, even to the air they are breathing inside their own homes.

Learn more about the threats of plastics to the next generation.

Governments and NGOs from around the world are currently gathered in Nairobi to negotiate the terms of the United Nations Global Plastic Treaty – but right now that Treaty draft ignores the issues of plastics and health completely. 

I am there for EARTHDAY‍.ORG trying to change that. But there are over 143 lobbyists from the fossil fuel and chemical industry in attendance too, trying to stop us.  EARTHDAY.ORG is driving awareness through this report, the first of five that will shine a light on the critical problems that face our beautiful planet from plastics.

Check out the report and please share it widely with your friends. Only through knowledge can we overcome.

In solidarity,

Aidan Charron
Director, End Plastic Initiatives