Plastics have enabled extraordinary advances in virtually every area of medicine and have made our lives immeasurably more convenient. Multiple lines of evidence now indicate, however, that plastics are neither as safe nor as inexpensive as they seem. The benefits of plastics come at great and increasingly visible costs to human health and the environment. Plastics are manufactured chemical materials.¹ Fossil fuels — gas, oil, and coal — are the main feedstocks of plastics, and fossil carbon corporations such as ExxonMobil are their principal producers. Plastics comprise a polymer matrix plus thousands of chemical additives that impart such properties as . . .

塑料几乎在医学的每个领域都取得了非凡的进步，并使我们的生活变得更加方便。然而，现在的多种证据表明，塑料既不像看起来那么安全，也不像看起来那么便宜。塑料的好处给人类健康和环境带来了巨大且日益明显的代价。塑料是制造化学材料。¹化石燃料（天然气、石油和煤炭）是塑料的主要原料，埃克森美孚等化石碳公司是塑料的主要生产商。塑料由聚合物基体和数千种化学添加剂组成，这些化学添加剂具有以下特性。。。