New Study Links Plastics Exposure To Breast Cancer

This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity. Windsor, Ontario—For more than three decades, workers, most of them women, have complained of dreadful conditions in many of this city's plastic automotive parts factories: Pungent fumes and dust that caused nosebleeds, headaches, nausea and dizziness. Blobs of smelly, smoldering plastic dumped directly onto the floor.

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