Journal article
The fundamental links between climate change and marine plastic pollution
- Abstract:
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Plastic pollution and climate change have commonly been treated as two separate issues and sometimes are even seen as competing. Here we present an alternative view that these two issues are fundamentally linked. Primarily, we explore how plastic contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the beginning to the end of its life cycle. Secondly, we show that more extreme weather and floods associated with climate change, will exacerbate the spread of plastic in the natural environment. Fi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Science of The Total Environment Journal website
- Volume:
- 806
- Issue:
- Part 1
- Article number:
- 150392
- Publication date:
- 2021-09-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-09-13
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0048-9697
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1194189
- Local pid:
- pubs:1194189
- Deposit date:
- 2021-09-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Ford et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- ©2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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