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The impact of floods on plastic pollution
Global SustainabilityNon-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 waters, plastic land. Pandemic pollution
Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2021 Efthimia Kosmas
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Editorial: Plastic Pollution [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 François Galgani +2 more
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Plastic pollution and health. [PDF]
EClinicalMedicine, 2023 eClinicalMedicine.
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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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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 +8 more
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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 sources causes direct and/or indirect interruption to ecosystem structure, functions, and consequently,
G.G.N. Thushari, J.D.M. Senevirathna
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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 +6 more
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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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Defining Plastic Pollution Hotspots
Science of The Total Environment, 2023 Plastic pollution in the natural environment poses a growing threat to ecosystems and human health, prompting urgent needs for monitoring, prevention and clean-up measures, and new policies. To effectively prioritize resource allocation and mitigation strategies, it is key to identify and define plastic hotspots.
Paolo Tasseron +6 more
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