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Look at East Palestine. Those chemicals are chemicals used to make a type of plastic.

PET is made of ethylene glycol and dimethyl terephthalate. Ethylene glycol in particular is known as a teratogen (a chemical which causes physical deformities).

In addition, there is a big difference in forever chemicals that are now geographically distributed throughout the world, especially the ocean seabeds, vs having it all in one place. And the environmental and health effects of certain microplastics are still being studied but research in mice and rats shows they accumulate in the liver and kidney and induce significant alterations in blood biomarkers for neurotoxins