Weathering Plastics as a Planetary Boundary Threat: Exposure, Fate, and Hazards

We described in 2017 how weathering plastic litter in the marine environment fulfils two of three criteria to impose a planetary boundary threat related to “chemical pollution and the release of novel entities”: (1) planetary-scale exposure, which (2) is not readily reversible. Whether marine plasti...

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Published in:Environmental science & technology 2021-06, Vol.55 (11), p.7246-7255
Main Authors: Arp, Hans Peter H, Kühnel, Dana, Rummel, Christoph, MacLeod, Matthew, Potthoff, Annegret, Reichelt, Sophia, Rojo-Nieto, Elisa, Schmitt-Jansen, Mechthild, Sonnenberg, Johanna, Toorman, Erik, Jahnke, Annika
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemical pollution
Criteria
Earth system science
environmental plastics
Exposure
fate
hazards
Leachates
Marine environment
Microplastics
nanoplastics
planetary boundary threat
Plastic pollution
Plastics
pollution
Toxic hazards
toxicology
Weathering
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