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Delineating and preventing plastic waste leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment
Plastics are nowadays considered to be the workhorse material of our modern society with an ubiquitous presence that has increased manifold over the past 60 years, providing several benefits to the global economy. However, inappropriate and/or uncontrolled disposal practices, poor waste management i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7136316/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32124287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08139-y |
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description | Plastics are nowadays considered to be the workhorse material of our modern society with an ubiquitous presence that has increased manifold over the past 60 years, providing several benefits to the global economy. However, inappropriate and/or uncontrolled disposal practices, poor waste management infrastructure and application of insufficient recycling technologies, coupled with a lack of public awareness and incentives, have rendered plastic waste omnipresent, littering both the marine and the terrestrial environment with multi-faceted impacts. This short communication/commentary aims at delineating the plastic litter global challenge providing, at the same time, scientific views and perspectives on properly dealing with this material type, both upstream and downstream. |
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spelling | pubmed-71363162020-04-09 Delineating and preventing plastic waste leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment Hahladakis, John N. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Short Research and Discussion Article Plastics are nowadays considered to be the workhorse material of our modern society with an ubiquitous presence that has increased manifold over the past 60 years, providing several benefits to the global economy. However, inappropriate and/or uncontrolled disposal practices, poor waste management infrastructure and application of insufficient recycling technologies, coupled with a lack of public awareness and incentives, have rendered plastic waste omnipresent, littering both the marine and the terrestrial environment with multi-faceted impacts. This short communication/commentary aims at delineating the plastic litter global challenge providing, at the same time, scientific views and perspectives on properly dealing with this material type, both upstream and downstream. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-03-02 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7136316/ /pubmed/32124287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08139-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Short Research and Discussion Article Hahladakis, John N. Delineating and preventing plastic waste leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment |
title | Delineating and preventing plastic waste leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment |
title_full | Delineating and preventing plastic waste leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment |
title_fullStr | Delineating and preventing plastic waste leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment |
title_full_unstemmed | Delineating and preventing plastic waste leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment |
title_short | Delineating and preventing plastic waste leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment |
title_sort | delineating and preventing plastic waste leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment |
topic | Short Research and Discussion Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7136316/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32124287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08139-y |
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