Plastics and their toxic chemicals endanger people, wildlife and the environment throughout their life cycle, they warn, calling for production caps in the U.N. treaty.

By Liza Gross

No place on Earth is safe from plastic pollution. Plastic garbage and tiny shards of these long-lived petroleum-based polymers taint the highest Himalayan mountains, deepest ocean trenches, outermost Antarctic field stations and hidden recesses of the human body.

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