Applications and societal benefits of plastics

Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

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Plastics Recycling: Challenges and Opportunities

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Plastics, the environment and human health: current consensus and future trends

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Transport and release of chemicals from plastics to the environment and to wildlife

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Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings–entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions

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Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment

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Our plastic age

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A critical analysis of the biological impacts of plasticizers on wildlife

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Phthalates and other additives in plastics: human exposure and associated health outcomes

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The toxicology of perfluorooctanoate

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Initiation of Mammalian Liver Development from Endoderm by Fibroblast Growth Factors

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Components of plastic: experimental studies in animals and relevance for human health

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Human body burdens of chemicals used in plastic manufacture

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Bisphenol A is released from polycarbonate drinking bottles and mimics the neurotoxic actions of estrogen in developing cerebellar neurons

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Antimony leaching from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic used for bottled drinking water

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A comparison of neustonic plastic and zooplankton abundance in southern California’s coastal waters

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Power Generation Technologies

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Pharmacokinetic modeling of saturable, renal resorption of perfluoroalkylacids in monkeys—Probing the determinants of long plasma half-lives

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New Directions in Plastic Debris

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Prehistoric Polymers: Rubber Processing in Ancient Mesoamerica

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Plastics materials flow analysis for India

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Plastics and the Environment

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Power Generation Technologies

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Metabolism-dependent hepatotoxicity of methimazole in mice depleted of glutathione

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Reusable and disposable cups: An energy-based evaluation

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Structuring policy problems for plastics, the environment and human health: reflections from the UK

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An assessment of the genetic toxicology of antimony trioxide

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Review of Subchronic/Chronic Toxicity of Antimony Potassium Tartrate

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Energy Recovery From Mixed Waste Paper

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Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

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Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review

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An overview of chemical additives present in plastics: Migration, release, fate and environmental impact during their use, disposal and recycling

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Plastics Recycling: Challenges and Opportunities

Hopewell, J., Dvorak, R., & Kosior, E. (2009) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0311 · Cited by 3,201 · see citing works

The plastic in microplastics: A review

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Future Scenarios of Global Plastic Waste Generation and Disposal

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Uptake and Effects of Microplastics on Cells and Tissue of the Blue Mussel <i>Mytilus edulis</i> L. after an Experimental Exposure

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Microplastics in freshwater ecosystems: what we know and what we need to know

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Studies of the Effects of Microplastics on Aquatic Organisms: What Do We Know and Where Should We Focus Our Efforts in the Future?

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Our plastic age

Thompson, R. C., Swan, S. H., Moore, C. J., & vom Saal, F. S. (2009) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0054 · Cited by 1,294 · see citing works

Emergence of Nanoplastic in the Environment and Possible Impact on Human Health

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(Nano)plastics in the environment - Sources, fates and effects

da Costa, J. P., Santos, P. S. M., Duarte, A. C., & Rocha-Santos, T. (2016) · Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.041 · Cited by 1,139 · see citing works

Microplastics are taken up by mussels (Mytilus edulis) and lugworms (Arenicola marina) living in natural habitats

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Biodegradable and compostable alternatives to conventional plastics

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Distribution of plastic polymer types in the marine environment; A meta-analysis

Erni-Cassola, G., Zadjelovic, V., Gibson, M. I., & Christie-Oleza, J. A. (2019) · Journal of Hazardous Materials · doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.02.067 · Cited by 874 · see citing works

Environmental performance of bio-based and biodegradable plastics: the road ahead

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Phthalates and other additives in plastics: human exposure and associated health outcomes

Meeker, J. D., Sathyanarayana, S., & Swan, S. H. (2009) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0268 · Cited by 835 · see citing works

Bio-based polymers with performance-advantaged properties

Cywar, R. M., Rorrer, N. A., Hoyt, C. B., Beckham, G. T., & Chen, E. Y.-X. (2021) · Nature Reviews Materials · doi:10.1038/s41578-021-00363-3 · Cited by 811 · see citing works

Recycling of Polymers: A Review

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Effects of nanoplastics and microplastics on toxicity, bioaccumulation, and environmental fate of phenanthrene in fresh water

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Microplastics in human food chains: Food becoming a threat to health safety

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Altered Behavior, Physiology, and Metabolism in Fish Exposed to Polystyrene Nanoparticles

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Production of methane and ethylene from plastic in the environment

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Spatial and seasonal variation in diversity and structure of microbial biofilms on marine plastics in Northern European waters

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Prospects for microbiological solutions to environmental pollution with plastics

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Is there any consistency between the microplastics found in the field and those used in laboratory experiments?

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Marine Microbial Assemblages on Microplastics: Diversity, Adaptation, and Role in Degradation

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Dispersion, Accumulation, and the Ultimate Fate of Microplastics in Deep-Marine Environments: A Review and Future Directions

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Plastic pollution solutions: emerging technologies to prevent and collect marine plastic pollution

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Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion

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Polystyrene microplastics induced female reproductive toxicity in mice

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Manufacturing energy and greenhouse gas emissions associated with plastics consumption

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Evaluation of the impact of polyethylene microbeads ingestion in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) larvae

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Ingestion of Microplastic Has Limited Impact on a Marine Larva

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Depolymerization within a Circular Plastics System

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Why is recycling of postconsumer plastics so challenging?

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The fate of plastic in the ocean environment – a minireview

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The influence of biotic and abiotic factors on the rate of degradation of poly(lactic) acid (PLA) coupons buried in compost and soil

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Aliphatic Polyester Block Polymer Design

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The Chemical Recycling of PLA: A Review

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Microplastics in the Arctic: A Case Study with Sub-Surface Water and Fish Samples off Northeast Greenland

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Ecotoxicological Effects of Chemical Contaminants Adsorbed to Microplastics in the Clam Scrobicularia Plana

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Secondary Microplastics Generation in the Sea Swash Zone With Coarse Bottom Sediments: Laboratory Experiments

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Recycling of plastic waste: presence of phthalates in plastics from households and industry

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Polystyrene microplastics ingestion induced behavioral effects to the cladoceran Daphnia magna

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Solving the plastic problem: from cradle to grave, to reincarnation

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The Role of Biodegradable Plastic in Solving Plastic Solid Waste Accumulation

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Photoautotrophic production of polyhydroxyalkanoates in a synthetic mixed culture of Synechococcus elongatus cscB and Pseudomonas putida cscAB

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Transforming Plastic Waste into Porous Carbon for Capturing Carbon Dioxide: A Review

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New Kids in Lactide Polymerization: Highly Active and Robust Iron Guanidine Complexes as Superior Catalysts

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Raman and ATR-FTIR unmask crystallinity changes and carboxylate group and vinyl group accumulation in natural weathering polypropylene microplastics

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Plastic microbeads: Small yet mighty concerning

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Towards Higher Quality of Recycled Plastics: Limitations from the Material’s Perspective

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Microplastic Presence in the Pelagic Fish, Seriola dumerili, from Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean), and Assessment of Oxidative Stress and Detoxification Biomarkers in Liver

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Characterization of petroleum-based plastics and their absorbed trace metals from the sediments of the Marina Beach in Chennai, India

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Algal Growth at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Suspended Solids: Implications for Microplastic Hazard Assessment

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Waste-derived carbon nanostructures (WD-CNs): An innovative step toward waste to treasury

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The power of good decisions: promoting eco-informed design attitudes in plastic selection and use

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In situ laboratory for plastic degradation in the Red Sea

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From Lipoic Acid to 1,2-Dithianes: Expanding Radical Ring-Opening to Less-Activated Monomers Such as Vinyl Acetate

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Deciphering the toxic effects of polystyrene nanoparticles on erythropoiesis at single-cell resolution

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Degradation of polyethylene by three bacteria isolated from coastal beach

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Bacterial isolation and evaluation for degradation of unpretreated LDPE from waste dump soils

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Ecotoxicological Effects of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Microplastics on the Growth, Reproduction and Survival of Daphnia magna

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