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Gordon Street is a clinical psychologist who lives and works in Lincoln. He also serves on the Lincoln Town Council and chairs the Lincoln Lakes Regional Democratic Committee.

“Plastic causing ‘disease and death from infancy to old age’” said a recent CBS News headline .

NBC News quoted The Lancet report: “Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognized danger to human and planetary health.”

The Guardian shared the British medical journal’s conclusion that “foetuses, infants and young children were highly susceptible to the harms associated with plastics,” increasing risks of birth defects, lung p

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