Bérangère Couillard, Secretary of State for Ecology relaunched, on January 30, the debate on the establishment of instructions for plastic bottles in France, within the framework of the antigaspillage law. Its goal: to target the 100 % recycled plastic. But why aim for this objective when we know today that plastic poses serious problems on our health and that of future generations?
Every minute, a Million of plastic bottles on average are sold around the world. A million bottles that generate microplastics throughout their life cycle. A million bottles that poison adults and children with microplastics that they ingest by drinking their contents. All these plastic bottles are made of PET [Polyethylene Téréphtalate, a variety of transparent plastic] which is the most toxic plastic category, and paradoxically “the most recyclable”.
The PET generates antimony, a carcinogenic metal, close to arsenic. The longer we keep content in this material, the more toxic substances contaminate it. Despite popular belief, plastic pollution begins well before a plastic product became waste. Plastic pollution begins when it was created. Plastic generates microparticles, plastic nanoparticles throughout its life cycle. This invisible pollution poisons us daily.
each week we ingest 5 grams of microplastics, the equivalent of the weight of a credit card . The extent of the impact of plastic pollution is much greater than you think. It all affects us, when we drink mineral water in a plastic bottle, when we wash. It also affects us by the pores of our skin which absorb microplastics or nanoplastic, when we wear A garment , below in synthetic material (nylon, polyester, recycled plastic).
It finally affects women, because their body more easily absorbs the toxins of the chemical substances contained in plastic, knowing that they consume much more, by making up, using every month buffers or hygienic towels , because all these products contain and are very often contained in plastic.
The pregnant women have all The parts of the placenta. microplastics have been found in breast milk . The more we are exposed to plastic, recycling, and therefore to its pollution in microplastics, and the more this amount of plastic ingested increases.
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