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Recycling plastics contaminate children’s toys with toxic chemicals’
Source: The Guardian, Date: , 2017
Source: The Guardian, April, 2017 :- Ahead of the eighth meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC COP-8) in Geneva,
Switzerland, a new global survey has revealed that recycling plastics
containing toxic flame retardant chemicals found in electronic waste results in
contamination of new children’s toys and related products. The substances include
octabromodiphenyl ether (OctaBDE), decabromodiphenyl ether (DecaBDE), and
hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD). This study found all three toxic chemicals in
recycled plastic children’s products. These chemicals are known to disrupt
human hormone systems, adversely impacting the development of the ner- vous
system and children’s intelligence. In a survey of products from 26 countries
including Nigeria, 90 per cent of the samples contained OctaBDE or DecaBDE.
Nearly half of them (43per cent) contained HBCD. Recycling materials that
contain persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and other toxic substances
contaminates new products, continues human and environmental exposure, and
undermines the credibility of recycling.
Read More: https://guardian.ng/property/recycling-plastics-contaminate-childrens-toys-with-toxic-chemicals/
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