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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 1576 audit events. We found that 50% of items were unbranded, calling for mandated producer reporting.
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. Urgent attention is essential to comprehend and address these climate-driven effects and their consequences.
Wei XF, Yang W, Hedenqvist MS.
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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.
Pathak, Gauri, Nichter, Mark, Hardon, Anita, Moyer, Eileen, Latkar, Aarti, Simbaya, Joseph, Pakasi, Diana, Taqueban, Efenita, Love, Jessica   +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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Plastic pollution in the Arctic

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2022
Plastic pollution is now pervasive in the Arctic, even in areas with no apparent human activity, such as the deep seafloor. In this Review, we describe the sources and impacts of Arctic plastic pollution, including plastic debris and microplastics, which have infiltrated terrestrial and aquatic systems, the cryosphere and the atmosphere.
Melanie Bergmann, France Collard, Joan Fabres, Geir W. Gabrielsen, Jennifer F. Provencher, Chelsea M. Rochman, Erik van Sebille, Mine B. Tekman   +7 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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Birds and plastic pollution: recent advances [PDF]

Avian Research, 2021
AbstractPlastic waste and debris have caused substantial environmental pollution globally in the past decades, and they have been accumulated in hundreds of terrestrial and aquatic avian species. Birds are susceptible and vulnerable to external environments; therefore, they could be used to estimate the negative effects of environmental pollution.
Limin Wang, Ghulam Nabi, Liyun Yin, Yanqin Wang, Shuxin Li, Zhuang Hao, Dongming Li   +6 more
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Plastic waters, plastic land. Pandemic pollution

Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2021
Efthimia Kosmas
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Plastic pollution and health. [PDF]

EClinicalMedicine, 2023
eClinicalMedicine.
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