Are you aware of the amount of plastic that people unknowingly ingest each day?
This week on Grassroots, Patti & Doug discuss plastic pollution from artificial turf fields and the discovery of TFA "forever" chemicals in drinking water everywhere in the world. Then food engineer Jackie Bowen, Executive Director of the Clean Label Project, talks about chemical toxins in baby food and what we can do about it. More information at www.CleanLabelProject.org
Links from the interview:
Clean Label Project:https://cleanlabelproject.org/
People could be eating a credit card worth of plastic each week:https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/resource-library/people-could-be-eating-a-credit-card-of-plastic-a-week#:~:text=A%20study%20finds%20that%20people,on%20plastic%20ingestion%20by%20people.
Links from the news:
Rapidly rising levels of TFA alarm experts:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/rapidly-rising-levels-of-tfa-forever-chemical-alarm-experts
Conservation work is making a measurable difference:https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/05/first-ever-planet-wide-analysis-shows-conservation-work-is-making-a-measurable-difference/
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