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Plastic pollution in the marine environment [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 Plastic pollution is recognized as a severe anthropogenic issue in the coastal and marine ecosystems across the world. Unprecedented and continuous accumulation of growing plastic contaminants into any respective aquatic ecosystem by the anthropogenic ...
G.G.N. Thushari, J.D.M. Senevirathna
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Plastic pollution solutions: emerging technologies to prevent and collect marine plastic pollution
Environment International, 2020 As plastic waste accumulates in the ocean at alarming rates, the need for efficient and sustainable remediation solutions is urgent. One solution is the development and mobilization of technologies that either 1) prevent plastics from entering waterways ...
Emma Schmaltz +7 more
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Sea of plastic: representations of the sea and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors regarding marine plastic pollution in Peru and Chile [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Marine plastic pollution remains one of the greatest problems worldwide. Hence, this study explores the attitudes and pro-environmental behaviors of Peruvian and Chilean citizens regarding marine pollution, with an emphasis on plastic pollution. For this,
Fernanda Saavedra +7 more
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Seawater-Degradable Polymers-Fighting the Marine Plastic Pollution. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh), 2020 AbstractPolymers shape human life but they also have been identified as pollutants in the oceans due to their long lifetime and low degradability. Recently, various researchers have studied the impact of (micro)plastics on marine life, biodiversity, and potential toxicity.
Wang GX +4 more
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A Review of the Production, Recycling and Management of Marine Plastic Pollution
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 The human attachment to plastic has intensified recently due to its lightweight, versatility, low-cost and durability and so has the damage to the marine environment as marine plastic pollution has correspondingly increased.
Ibrahim Issifu, U. Rashid Sumaila
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Uncoupled: investigating the lack of correlation between the transcription of putative plastic-degrading genes in the global ocean microbiome and marine plastic pollution [PDF]
Environmental MicrobiomeBackground Plastic pollution is a severe threat to marine ecosystems. While some microbial enzymes can degrade certain plastics, the ability of the global ocean microbiome to break down diverse environmental plastics remains limited.
Victor Gambarini +6 more
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Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment, 2021 As one of the top ten environmental problems to be solved in the world, marine plastic waste and microplastic pollution seriously affect the health of marine ecosystems and the sustainable development of Marine economies.
Yue Yang, Ling Chen, Lan Xue
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Tackling Marine Plastic Pollution Through Source-To-Sea Approach and Circular Economy [PDF]
Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 2020 Marine litter and associated marine pollution are becoming a complex global environmental hazard these days. Among the different faces of marine pollution, by far the largest and probably the most dangerous part is marine plastic litter.
A. E. Francis and S. Herat
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Problemi pravne (ne)reguliranosti (mikro)plastike u morskom i riječnom okolišu
Poredbeno Pomorsko Pravo, 2022 The durability of plastics, plastic litter’s ability to “travel” on rivers and across long distances as well as to accumulate in the seas and remain in the environment for a long period pose a great danger, the solution to which raises a challenge at the
Biljana Činčurak Erceg
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 The Single-Use Plastics Directive (EU) 72/2019/904 is the main legislation governing plastic pollution, inclusive of marine plastic pollution in the European Union (EU).
María Del Camino Troya +2 more
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