Arctic’s Plastic Crisis Report
April 24 , 2024
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- It is a new report titled ‘The Arctic’s Plastic Crisis: Toxic Threats to Health, Human Rights, and Indigenous Lands from the Petrochemical Industry’.
- It was launched by the Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN).
- The Arctic is a ‘hemispheric sink’ for chemicals & plastics accumulating in the region from local as well as global sources.
- These pose a grave risk for the 13 million inhabitants of the region.
- The production and use of fossil fuels is the starting point for the problems faced by the Arctic related to plastics, chemicals, and climate change.

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