When scientists examined pellets from recycled plastic collected in 13 countries they found hundreds of toxic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals.
Because of this, the scientists judge recycled plastics unfit for most purposes and a hinder in the attempts to create a circular economy.
It's not like non recycled plastic doesn't have them either.
I think the scientists were saying we need to phase out all plastic chemicals because they are basically all non-safe.
I understand that. I'm just skeptic as to this new piece of information to move the needle towards less use of plastics.
That's not what I got from the article. They seemed to be talking specifically about chemicals have absorbed from what they've been in contact with.