Tomorrow is world health day.

The plastic crisis is expanding and evolving every day. Scientific evidence continues to expose the wider and wider impact plastic pollution has on our environment, ecosystems, animals and us.
New facets of the plastic crisis and how environmental toxins from the plastic life cycle affect human health and the environment is increasing. Scientists have now learned that micro-and nanoplastics can be transported worldwide via the atmosphere. Once airborne, these plastic particles can enter our bodies with every breath we take.

A new brief from the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) shares a global analysis on the impacts of micro and nano plastics moving through the air and entering the human body via inhalation. The brief highlights the long-range transport of particulates but also close sources, and indoor concentration of plastic particles that can be particularly harmful from packaging, clothing, and carpets to name a few.

Understanding the multifaceted environmental and health risks is imperative for the ISLANDS Programme, to support knowledge sharing and ensure social equity in knowing about, and acting on making changes through individual behavioral change, but also policy, programming and real action. Does anyone in the group have new data, or research connecting human health and the hazardous toxins from the plastic crisis to share localized to your region or country? Let us know!
Take a moment, in recognition of World Health Day to read the brief, and share this crucial evidence with a colleague to expand the reach of these key issues and risks to our planetary and human health, and our collective well-being.