Plastic pollution: how can the global health community fight the growing problem? [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2023 Correspondence to Dr Dieudonne Bidashimwa; dbidashimwa@ fhi360. org © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Reuse permitted under CC BYNC. No commercial reuse. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. BACKGROUND Plastic pollution is a global crisis
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Microplastic and plastic pollution: impact on respiratory disease and health. [PDF]
Eur Respir RevThroughout their lifecycle, from production to use and upon disposal, plastics release chemicals and particles known as micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) that can accumulate in the environment.
Vasse GF, Melgert BN.
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Plastic pollution in riverbeds fundamentally affects natural sand transport processes. [PDF]
Commun Earth Environ, 2023 Over the past 50 years, rivers have become increasingly important vectors for plastic pollution. Lowland riverbeds exhibit coherent morphological features including ripple and dune bedforms, which transport sediment downstream via well-understood ...
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‘Plastic Pollution’ and Plastics as Pollution in Mumbai, India [PDF]
Ethnos, 2020 In the last decade, plastic pollution has emerged as a major global issue in public discourse. Nonetheless, there is little consensus on which aspects of plastics constitute the problem.
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Plastic pollution induced by the COVID-19: Environmental challenges and outlook. [PDF]
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has also caused an environmental challenge, especially plastic pollution. This study is aimed to provide a systematic review of the current status and outlook of research on plastic pollution caused by the COVID-19 pandemic using a ...
Wang Q, Zhang C, Li R.
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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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Finding the Balance between Research and Monitoring: When Are Methods Good Enough to Understand Plastic Pollution? [PDF]
Environ Sci Technol, 2023 Plastic pollution is an international environmental problem. Desire to act is shared from the public to policymakers, yet motivation and approaches are diverging.
Lusher AL, Primpke 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.
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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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