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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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Priorities to inform research on marine plastic pollution in Southeast Asia [PDF]
, 2022 Southeast Asia is considered to have some of the highest levels of marine plastic pollution in the world. It is therefore vitally important to increase our understanding of the impacts and risks of plastic pollution to marine ecosystems and the essential
Aiemsomboon, Kornrawee +59 more
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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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Impacts of plastic pollution in the oceans on marine species, biodiversity and ecosystems [PDF]
, 2022 A new report commissioned by WWF provides the most comprehensive account to date of the extent to which plastic pollution is affecting the global ocean, the impacts it’s having on marine species and ecosystems, and how these trends are likely to ...
Bergmann, Melanie +4 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 In recent years, marine plastic pollution has seen increased coverage in the public interest and research due to a greater understanding of the scale and impact of plastic pollution within the marine environment. Considering the hazard that plastic waste
Morgan David Simpson +8 more
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Proliferation, Action: Marine Plastic Pollution, Material Agency, and Affective Representation [PDF]
, 2014 Seeing plastic as an actant rather than inert matter can help us better comprehend the effects of marine plastic pollution. In this essay, I read various texts that depict plastic as an actant, highlighting the ways they give narrative urgency to a ...
Clare Echterling
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Global perceptions of plastic pollution: The contours and limits of debate
Cambridge Prisms: Plastics, 2023 Plastic pollution is central to policy and public debates about anthropogenic damage to the environment. Negotiations for an international binding treaty to end plastic pollution provide a timely opportunity to analyse peer-reviewed papers concerning ...
Lesley Henderson
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Plastic as a Persistent Marine Pollutant [PDF]
Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2017 Synthetic organic polymers—or plastics—did not enter widespread use until the 1950s. By 2015, global production had increased to 322 million metric tons (Mt) year−1, which approaches the total weight of the human population produced in plastic every year.
Chris Wilcox +4 more
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Environmental status of marine plastic pollution in Spain
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2021 The excessive use of plastic in our society is causing a massive accumulation, since it is a non-biodegradable product and with still poor recycling rates. This effect can be observed in the seas, which more and more plastic waste are accumulating.
Martín Lara, María Ángeles +4 more
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