02 January 2017 02 Jan 2017

Plastics, pregnancy and precaution

In 1967's The Graduate, Mr McGuire advises Dustin Hoffman's character Benjamin on career prospects: ‘I just want to say one word to you Just one word… Plastics’ McGuire was right; Wilcox et al (2015) demonstrated that global production of plastic has doubled every 11 years since the 1950s, and up to 580 000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre now pollute the world's oceans