Health
Plastics
were considered "clean" compounds until the mid
1970s when it was discovered that employees contracted a rare
liver cancer when making PVC Plastic.
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Waste
plastics are chopped to recycle. There has been at least one
death in this process, when an employee was killed in the
shredding machine.Burning most plastics gives off carcinogenic
(cancer causing) fumes.
Plastic at sea
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