Empty plastic bottles move down a production line to be turned into Dasani bottled water at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Salt Lake City, Utah on Feb. 10, 2017. George Frey / Getty Images
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Plastic — once seen as a marvel of modern science with uses from packaging to textiles — is now a scourge polluting our waterways, exposing us to PFAS “forever chemicals” and making its way into our bloodstreams in the form of microplastics.
Plastic production doubled worldwide in the 20…
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