Legacy oceanic plastic pollution must be addressed to mitigate possible long-term ecological impacts
Microplastics and Nanoplastics, 2023 Scientific research over the past decade has demonstrated that plastic in our oceans has detrimental consequences for marine life at all trophic levels. As countries negotiate an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, the focus is
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Review on the ecotoxicological impacts of plastic pollution on the freshwater invertebrate Daphnia. [PDF]
Environ Toxicol, 2022 The environmental impacts of plastic pollution have recently attracted universal attention, especially in the aquatic environment. However, research has mostly been focused on marine ecosystems, even though freshwater ecosystems are equally if not more ...
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Men’s Health in Industries: Plastic Plant Pollution and Prevalence of Pre-diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [PDF]
American Journal of Men's Health, 2018 Plastic production is prominently increasing and its pollution is an emerging environmental global health concern. This study aimed to investigate the occurrence of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among nonsmoking plastic industry ...
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International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2022 : Plastic pollution is one of the fastest growing environmental challenges of our time. Since the 1960’s, various concerns were raised regarding plastic waste generation (Plastic pollution) around the globe. Everyday tons of plastic waste is generated in
Ameya Wagh, Falguni Bhavsar, R. Shinde
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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.
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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.
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Freshwater Microplastics: Emerging Environmental Contaminants? [PDF]
, 2020 Emerging contaminants; Plastic pollution; Microplastic pollution; Microplastic-associated biofilms; Freshwater pollution; Inland water pollution; Plastic ...
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Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution
Science, 2020 A mess of plastic It is not clear what strategies will be most effective in mitigating harm from the global problem of plastic pollution. Borrelle et al. and Lau et al. discuss possible solutions and their impacts.
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On Advances, Challenges and Potentials of Remote Sensing Image Analysis in Marine Debris and Suspected Plastics Monitoring [PDF]
, 2022 Marine plastic pollution is an emerging environmental problem since it pollutes the ocean, air and food whilst endangering the ocean wildlife via the ingestion and entanglements. During the last decade, an enormous effort has been spent on finding possible solutions to marine plastic pollution.
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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
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