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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 +8 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.
Pathak, Gauri +8 more
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Reducing plastic waste for the competitiveness of Vietnamese tourist attractions [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Plastic usage in tourism activities has increased significantly in Vietnam over the past decades, leading to the burden of plastic pollution and the threat to sustainable tourism development.
Tran Minh Tuan +2 more
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Plastic Pulse of the Public: A review of survey-based research on how people use plastic
Cambridge Prisms: Plastics, 2023 Plastics pollute all environmental compartments because of human activities and mismanagement. Public perceptions and knowledge about plastic pollution differ among individuals and across different jurisdictions.
Tony R. Walker +10 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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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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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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Transportation fate and removal of microplastic pollution – A perspective on environmental pollution
Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2020 With ever-increasing environmental pollution concerns, at large, and microplastic pollution, in particular, a sustainable quantification and redefining of plastic pollution is required urgently.
Muhammad Bilal, Hafiz M.N. Iqbal
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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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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.
Wang, Limin +6 more
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