Plastics: From a Success Story to an Environmental Problem and a Global Challenge.

What it found

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Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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3. Microplastic Pollution Prevention: The Need for Robust Policy Interventions to Close the Loopholes in Current Waste Management Practices.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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4. The Key to Solving Plastic Packaging Wastes: Design for Recycling and Recycling Technology.Polymers · 2023
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6. A domesticated photoautotrophic microbial community as a biofilm model system for analyzing the influence of plastic surfaces on invertebrate grazers in limnic environments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023
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7. In situ laboratory for plastic degradation in the Red Sea.Scientific reports · 2022
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8. Microplastics accumulate fungal pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems.Scientific reports · 2021
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9. Conceptions of university students on microplastics in Germany.PloS one · 2021
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

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Abstract

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