ADVERTISEMENT“We urge the country’s toy safety regulators to seriously look into this pioneering study demonstrating the harmful effects of plastic toys made of recycled e-waste plastic on human cells,” EcoWaste Coalition’s chemical safety campaigner Thony Dizon said Wednesday in a release. ADVERTISEMENTThe group explained that brominated dioxins are highly hazardous chemicals known to affect brain development, damage the immune system, increase the risk of cancer, and risk disruption of thyroid function. These are formed unintentionally during the production of brominated flame retardants. It added that when plastics with brominated flame retardants are recycled and heated to be re-formed into new plastic products, additional brominated and chlorinated dioxins are formed. Despite not being globally banned, the World Health Organization recognizes brominated dioxins to be as toxic as closely related chlorinated dioxins.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 06, 2020 03:59 UTC