The Break-Up - Part I

Sources:

Plastic and the Ocean

• A Plastic Ocean (Documentary - also available on Netflix)

• Broken, Season 1, Episode 4: “Recycling Sham” (Available on Netflix. Watch the series trailer here)

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

• https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/file/gpposter.pdf

• https://www.h2odistributors.com/pages/info/info-pacific-garbage-patch.asp

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w

Microplastics: bacteria and toxic effects

• Dirty Money, Season 2, Episode 5: “Point Comfort” (Available on Netflix. Watch the series’ second season trailer here)

• A Plastic Ocean (Documentary - also available on Netflix)

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190211110348.htm

• https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/plastic-planet-how-tiny-plastic-particles-are-polluting-our-soil

• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/11/pathogens-hitchhiking-on-plastics-could-carry-cholera-from-india-to-us

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X1730694X

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X19300116

• Environmental Effects of Chlorine from the US Environmental Protection Agency

EDCs and the Endocrine System

• Broken, Season 1, Episode 4: “Recycling Sham” (Available on Netflix. Watch the series trailer here)

• Dirty Money, Season 2, Episode 5: “Point Comfort” (Available on Netflix. Watch the series’ second season trailer here)

• https://www.hormone.org/your-health-and-hormones/endocrine-disrupting-chemicals-edcs 

• https://www.hormone.org/your-health-and-hormones/glands-and-hormones-a-to-z/hormones/estrogen

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-count-dropping-in-western-world/