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Global producer responsibility for plastic pollution. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Brand names can be used to hold plastic companies accountable for their items found polluting the environment. We used data from a 5-year (2018–2022) worldwide (84 countries) program to identify brands found on plastic items in the environment through ...
Cowger W, Willis KA, Bullock S, Conlon K, Emmanuel J, Erdle LM, Eriksen M, Farrelly TA, Hardesty BD, Kerge K, Li N, Li Y, Liebman A, Tangri N, Thiel M, Villarrubia-Gómez P, Walker TR, Wang M.   +17 more
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The impact of floods on plastic pollution

Global Sustainability
Non-Technical Summary Plastic harms ecosystem health and human livelihood on land, in rivers, and in the sea. To prevent and reduce plastic pollution, we must know how plastics move through the environment.
Tim H. M. van Emmerik
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Plastic pollution amplified by a warming climate. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Climate change and plastic pollution are interconnected global challenges. Rising temperatures and moisture alter plastic characteristics, contributing to waste, microplastic generation, and release of hazardous substances.
Wei XF, Yang W, Hedenqvist MS.
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Are bioplastics the solution to the plastic pollution problem? [PDF]

PLoS Biol, 2023
We live our lives immersed in plastic pollution: a problem that is becoming more acute. Viable alternatives that can reduce plastic pollution are being sought. Could bioplastics be the hoped-for solution to this problem?
Pascoe Ortiz S.
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Unfolding the science behind policy initiatives targeting plastic pollution [PDF]

Microplastics and Nanoplastics, 2023
The intensive global plastic production, use and associated plastic pollution have caused concern for the potential risks to human health and the environment.
Maria Bille Nielsen, Lauge Peter Westergaard Clausen, Richard Cronin, Steffen Foss Hansen, Nikoline Garner Oturai, Kristian Syberg   +5 more
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Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes [PDF]

Global Environmental Change, 2023
The open burning of plastic wastes is a practice that is highly prevalent across the globe, toxic to human and environmental health, and a critical—but often overlooked—aspect of plastic pollution. Most of the countries where such burning is widespread have laws and policies in place against it; open burning continues nevertheless.
Gauri Pathak, M. Nichter, A. Hardon, E. Moyer, A. Latkar, J. Simbaya, Diana Pakasi, E. Taqueban, J. Love   +8 more
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Environment education: A first step in solving plastic pollution

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Plastic pollution has been today’s most highly visible environmental problem in the world. How to responsibly manage plastic waste to control and eliminate plastic pollution has been a global challenge. We have begun to address these issues and developed
Jianli Liu, Zhubing Hu, Fangfang Du, Fangfang Du, Wei Tang, Siting Zheng, Shanzhou Lu, Lihui An, Jiannan Ding   +8 more
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Stakeholder alliances are essential to reduce the scourge of plastic pollution. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2023
Progress to reduce plastic pollution has been painfully slow and the consequent damage to the natural environment and to human health is likely to increase further.
Lampitt RS, Fletcher S, Cole M, Kloker A, Krause S, O'Hara F, Ryde P, Saha M, Voronkova A, Whyle A.   +9 more
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Plastic Pollution in Agriculture as a Threat to Food Security, the Ecosystem, and the Environment: An Overview

Agronomy
Plastic products in plant production and protection help farmers increase crop production, enhance food quality, and reduce global water use and their environmental footprint.
Imran Ali Lakhiar, Haofang Yan, Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Shuaishuai Deng, Rongxuan Bao, Chuan Zhang, Tabinda Naz Syed, Biyu Wang, Rui Zhou, Xuanxuan Wang   +10 more
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Plastic Pollution and Potential Solutions [PDF]

Science Progress, 2018
A review is presented of the manufacture and use of different types of plastic, and the effects of pollution by these materials on animal, human and environmental health, insofar as this is known. Since 2004, the world has made as much plastic as it did in the previous half century, and it has been reckoned that the total mass of virgin plastics ever ...
Christopher J. Rhodes
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