Plastic Pollution Coalition's February webinar focused on how plastics and endocrine-disrupting chemicals are contributing to decreasing sperm counts and other negative effects on human sexuality and fertility in both women and men.
The webinar was moderated by Dianna Cohen, Co-Founder & CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition, and panelists included: Shanna Swan, PhD, leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologist, and author of Count Down: How Our Modern World is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race, and Pete Myers, PhD, Founder and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences. The webinar took place on February 24, 2021.
1. Will Humanity Survive
Plastic Pollution?
Toxic Impact of Plastics’
Chemicals on Fertility
February 24, 2021
WEBINAR
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Plastic Pollution Coalition is a
growing global alliance of more than
1,200 organizations, businesses, and
thought leaders in 75 countries
working toward a world free of plastic
pollution and its toxic impact on
humans, animals, waterways, the
ocean, and the environment.
We educate, connect, and advocate
for a world free of plastic pollution.
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1. Tell us about yourself.
2. Where are you joining from?
3. Do you know what
endocrine-disrupting chemicals are?
4. Has anyone in your family or
close circle of friends experienced
infertility?
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Shanna Swan, PhD
Leading Environmental &
Reproductive Epidemiologist
Dianna Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO
Plastic Pollution Coalition
MODERATOR
TODAY’S WEBINAR
Dr. Pete Myers
Founder and Chief Scientist of
Environmental Health Sciences (EHS)
20. Environmental Health Sciences
2021
24 years count down to 0
If this trend continues, half of these toddlers will have
sperm counts of 0 when they are measured in 2045.
22. Environmental Health Sciences
Plastics and plastic chemicals are now
abundantly ubiquitous in the environment
On the highest mountains
In the Arctic snow
Antarctic deep
Bottom of the Marianas Trench
Remote tropical rivers
Sandy beaches worldwide
Everywhere
23. Environmental Health Sciences
How do they get everywhere?
We carry them
We put them in landfills and they leach
They volatilize and the wind blows
Rivers and ocean currents carry
Animals migrate
No uncontam
inated
place on earth
25. Environmental Health Sciences
Crucial science in EDC science
EDCs: severe effects at very low concentrations
Especially important during fetal life
A hit during adulthood might have little effect
The same hit to a fetus can destroy fertility
EDCs hack hormone signaling
26. Environmental Health Sciences
0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1 10 100 1 10 100 1 10 100 1.0
(pg/ml) (ng/ml) (µg/ml) (mg/ml)
Parts Per: trillion billion million thousand
hormones
EDCs Toxic agents
What’s a part per billion?
How many molecules of BPA will be
in one drop of water in which the
concentration of BPA is 1 ppb?
2.65 trillion
