
Six couples who want to start families but cannot conceive are the focus of a new Netflix documentary, The Plastic Detox.
The couples – two of which have been trying to get pregnant for over two years, while one has been attempting for a decade – strip as much plastic from their lives as possible over three months to see if this will help.
“Fertility worldwide is going down, and it is tightly linked to chemicals that are commonly used in plastic,” says epidemiologist Dr Shanna Swan in the…
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