Document - 19 February 2019

The Global Plastic Calamity

A Bluewater and the Mirpuri Foundation White Paper exploring the impact of plastics on the human body in a bid to raise public awareness about the threat to human and planetary health and wellbeing as well as help drive human ingenuity to help fix the problem.

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