Divest from plastic for a healthy body and a healthy future!

600 million tons of plastic waste predicted for 2040, representing 15% of global GreenHouse Gas emissions for 2050, already responsible for 35,000 premature deaths for plastic industry employees alone, and 158,000 premature deaths for neighbors breathing in fine particles. The global plastic invasion is not only a tide of waste polluting beaches around the world, clinging to bushes, and flying across deserts and mountains, it is also a tide of indirect deaths and serious disruptions to the food chain, until reaching humans.

For the "Global Plastics Treaty Talks" taking place in Geneva from August 5 to 14, 2025, some thirty researchers from the world's leading academies launched the "Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics" to document the effects of plastic on human health. Made up of 16,000 chemical substances, plastics already contain 1,500 carcinogens, mutagens, or reproductive toxins. PFAS, bisphenols, phthalates, PCBs, flame retardants, and many other pollutants in plastics are at the origin of the global wave of infertility, early birth and puberty, declining cognitive abilities, and hyperactivity in children.

The example of the Roman Empire: an international trade thanks to the healthy earthenware amphorae. Roman shipwrecks have proven that the Roman Empire owes its success also to earthenware amphorae, also to earthenware amphorae, which were the basis for the transport and trade of olive oil, fish sauces, wine, beer, and spices. Check out: "The Latest Work on the Export of Baetican Olive Oil to Rome and the Army," September 7, 2009, Cambridge University Press. Earthenware amphorae were the ancient equivalent of the contemporary containers, and were completely healthy because they contained no chemical or pharmaceutical disruptors!

The example of the boom in the global wine and soda trade thanks to the healthy glass bottles. While in Europe the Gauls have created wooden barrels around 350BC to ferment and transport beer and wine, wooden barrels were massively replaced from 1820 onwards by glass bottles for the global transport of wine and other alcohols. Then, glass milk bottles flooded schools in Europe and the USA. And then again, American sodas in glass bottles spread across the five continents, before the arrival of aluminum cans. Glass bottles do not degrade health, as proven, among other studies, this one: "Moisture and oxygen barrier properties of glass, PET and HDPE bottles for pharmaceutical products", May 2022, Science Direct – Elsevier.

Investments in the plastics industry not only poison populations, but will see their billions of dollars not yield as much as expected in the face of growing hostility against plastic in Europe, even in the USA, and in other countries. Investing in plastic means tying up capital in an industry that will become sterile. Glass, 100% infinitely recyclable, and the return of a wide variety of terracotta containers, are industries for a healthy future!