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McKinsey's take on plastics: not so bad

POLITICO · JORDAN WOLMAN · last updated

Plastics are everywhere and in nearly everything. Environmentalists have long called for reductions in the amount of plastic society uses, pointing to images of fish and seabirds with stomachs full of the stuff as evidence that their toxic chemicals inevitably end up in humans.

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