Plasticizer contamination triggers food security fear across Morocco

  • Plasticizer contamination triggers food security fear across Morocco
  • Plasticizer contamination triggers food security fear across Morocco
  • Plasticizer contamination triggers food security fear across Morocco
  • Are plastics causing environmental pollution?
  • Due to their characteristics, plastics are ubiquitous across global food systems, which is contributing to environmental pollution. Circular economy policies should account for the myriad effects of plastics across interdependent environmental, human health, and food security and economic domains.
  • Are food systems causing plastic pollution?
  • Nature Food 2, 80–87 (2021) Cite this article Plastic pollution arising from food systems is driving policies for reduction, removal, reuse and recycling, but literature on plastic uses and outcomes across subsectors is fragmented.
  • Is plastic pollution a threat to agriculture?
  • Plastic pollution has become pervasive in agricultural soils, according to a new report released on Tuesday by the UN agriculture agency, posing a threat to food security, people’s health, and the environment.
  • Does plastic affect food quality?
  • Agricultural plastics used to drive productivity or efficiencies were commonly researched (1730 [51·5%] studies), as was plastic packaging and effects on nutritional quality, longevity, or safety of foodstuffs (1090 [32·4%] studies).
  • Are microplastics a health hazard?
  • The accumulation of microplastics in food chains and leaching of harmful substances, such as bisphenols and phthalates, into food and drink products is of increasing concern—although their potential health effects remain unclear 11, 12.
  • Can throwaway plastic solve Europe's food waste problem?
  • Schweitzer, J.-P. et al. Unwrapped: How Throwaway Plastic is Failing to Solve Europe’s Food Waste Problem (and What We Need to do Instead) (Institute for European Environmental Policy, 2018). Hopewell, J., Dvorak, R. & Kosior, E. Plastics recycling: challenges and opportunities. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 2115–2126 (2009).

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