Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology
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Abstract
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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One Earth
Date :
2023-11-17
Volume :
6
Issue :
11
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Elsevier
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http://hdl.handle.net/10679/9111https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332223004979
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