‘The poison plastic’: why calls are growing for a ban on PVC

By Conor McGlone

Published Thursday, May 11, 2023

The following is an excerpt from my interview with this London, UK-based magazine.

Unseld adds: “Every step of the fossil fuel plastics lifestyle is deadly, so bans on individual chemicals and products won’t be enough because they’ll just replace it with something else. That’s why they moved lead out of paint into plastic toys.” She says fossil fuel companies will continue to scrape the barrel for chemicals – especially once energy is decarbonised – to create plastic.

There is only one solution, she says: “Just keep fossil fuels in the ground.”