Plastic ingestion as an evolutionary trap: Toward a holistic understanding

RG Santos, GE Machovsky-Capuska, R Andrades - Science, 2021 - science.org
Human activities are changing our environment. Along with climate change and a
widespread loss of biodiversity, plastic pollution now plays a predominant role in altering …

Chemical recycling to monomer for an ideal, circular polymer economy

GW Coates, YDYL Getzler - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
The majority of post-consumer plastic waste is not recycled. Impediments to the recycling of
commodity polymers include separation, impurities and degradation of the macromolecular …

100th anniversary of macromolecular science viewpoint: redefining sustainable polymers

DE Fagnani, JL Tami, G Copley, MN Clemons… - ACS macro …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Although Staudinger realized makromoleküles had enormous potential, he likely did not
anticipate the consequences of their universal adoption. With 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic …

Plastic pollutants: effective waste management for pollution control and abatement

KVS Rajmohan, C Ramya, MR Viswanathan… - Current Opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Plastics have been reported as one of the major pollutants among various pollutants that are
disposed of in the environment. They play a pivotal part in human life as they are cost …

Plastics in the environment as potential threat to life: an overview

I Ghaffar, M Rashid, M Akmal, A Hussain - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
Plastics have become inevitable for human beings in their daily life. Million tons of plastic
waste is entering in oceans, soil, freshwater, and sediments. Invasion of plastics in different …

Making citizen science count: Best practices and challenges of citizen science projects on plastics in aquatic environments

L Rambonnet, SC Vink, AM Land-Zandstra… - Marine pollution …, 2019 - Elsevier
There is considerable scientific and societal concern about plastic pollution, which has
resulted in citizen science projects to study the scale of the issue. Citizen science is a cost …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a circular economy of plastics: an evaluation of the systematic transition to a new generation of bioplastics

EM Melchor-Martínez, R Macías-Garbett… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polymers | Free Full-Text | Towards a Circular Economy of Plastics: An Evaluation of the
Systematic Transition to a New Generation of Bioplastics Next Article in Journal Graphene …

First record of microplastics in the endangered marine otter (Lontra felina)

L Santillán, M Saldaña-Serrano… - Mastozoología …, 2020 - SciELO Argentina
Lontra felina inhabits the coast of Peru and Chile frequently closed to human beach resorts
and fishing ports which are common focus of anthropogenic pollution like solid waste and …

Microplastics: impacts on corals and other reef organisms

O Pantos - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Plastic pollution in a growing problem globally. In addition to the continuous flow of plastic
particles to the environment from direct sources, and through the natural wear and tear of …

[HTML][HTML] Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis identifies microplastics in stranded common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) from New Zealand waters

KA Stockin, O Pantos, EL Betty, MDM Pawley… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
Here we provide a first assessment of microplastics (MPs) in stomach contents of 15
common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) from both single and mass stranding events along the …