Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology
Date
2023-11-09Author
Bergmann, M
Arp, HPH
Carney Almroth, B
Cowger, W
Eriksen, M
Dey, T
Gündoğdu, S
Helm, RR
Krieger, A
Syberg, K
Tekman, MB
Thompson, RC
Villarrubia-Gómez, P
Warrier, AK
Farrelly, T
Subject
41 Environmental Sciences 4105 Pollution and Contamination Prevention
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Plastic removal technologies can temporarily mitigate plastic accumulation at local scales, but evidence-based criteria are needed in policies to ensure that they are feasible and that ecological benefits outweigh the costs. To reduce plastic pollution efficiently and economically, policy should prioritize regulating and reducing upstream production rather than downstream pollution cleanup.
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Publisher
Elsevier BV
Journal
One Earth
Volume
6
Issue
11
Pagination
1439-1442
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