Lloyd Stouffer News Today

“The future of plastics is in the trash can,” predicted Lloyd Stouffer, editor of the Modern Packaging magazine, at a conference of the Society of Plastics Industry in 1956.

We no longer can ignore the true costs of the material that pervades our lives — and our bodies.

They’re harmful to health, environment, and human rights, and now poised to dominate this century as an unchecked cause of climate change.

Lyndsey O’Connell of the Sick of Plastic campaign outlines just how destructive this material is and offers simple ways to avoid using it.

A look at the growing plastic menace and how the movement against it came to be