The Telegraph: Plastics killing up to a million people a year, warns Sir David Attenborough
“Sir David Attenborough has warned that the growing tide of plastic pollution is killing up to a million people a year as well as having devastating consequences on the environment. A report on the impact of plastic pollution, one of the first to document the impact of discarded plastic on the health of the poorest people in the world, estimates that between 400,000 and one million people die every year because of diseases and accidents linked to poorly managed waste in developing countries…” (Gulland, 5/14).