[HTML][HTML] Plastic pollution, waste management issues, and circular economy opportunities in rural communities

FC Mihai, S Gündoğdu, LA Markley, A Olivelli, FR Khan… - Sustainability, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Rural areas are exposed to severe environmental pollution issues fed by industrial and
agricultural activities combined with poor waste and sanitation management practices …

A review of technological solutions to prevent or reduce marine plastic litter in develo** countries

A Winterstetter, M Grodent, V Kini, K Ragaert… - Sustainability, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Growing global plastic production combined with poor waste collection has led to increasing
amounts of plastic debris being found in oceans, rivers and on shores. The goal of this study …

The necessity of justice for a fair, legitimate, and effective treaty on plastic pollution

P Dauvergne - Marine Policy, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In 2022, states resolved to negotiate by the end of 2024 a legally binding international
instrument to govern the life cycle of plastics, including the prevention of marine pollution …

Governing plastics: The power and importance of activism in the global South

P Dauvergne - Environmental Science & Policy, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, civil society advocacy to improve plastics governance has been
surging across the global South. This diverse, fragmented, bottom-up advocacy is now a key …

Plastic Pollution as Waste Colonialism in Moananui

S Fuller, T Ngata, SB Borrelle, T Farrelly - 2022‏ - mro.massey.ac.nz
Plastics pollution is a global, relational, integrated, and intersectoral issue. Here, we
undertook narrative analysis of semi-structured interviews with nineteen key plastic pollution …

The ecological impact of plastic pollution in a changing climate

GW Chowdhury, HJ Koldewey… - Emerging Topics in …, 2022‏ - portlandpress.com
Assessing three interlinked issues, plastic pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss
separately can overlook potential interactions that may lead to positive or negative impacts …

The effectiveness of legislative and voluntary strategies to prevent ocean plastic pollution: Lessons from the UK and South Pacific

DT Tudor, AT Williams - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The islands of the South Pacific contribute a fraction of the mis-managed plastics in the
world's ocean, yet the region is one of the main recipients of its impacts. Based on expert …

Carbon Recycling of High Value Bioplastics: A Route to a Zero-Waste Future

M Keith, M Koller, M Lackner - Polymers, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Today, 98% of all plastics are fossil-based and non-biodegradable, and globally, only 9%
are recycled. Microplastic and nanoplastic pollution is just beginning to be understood. As …

Tourism, hospitality, and environmental sustainability on the Small Island Develo** States

J Day - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Tourism is a critical part of the socioeconomic and environmental life of Small Island
Develo** States. The review article examines the recent research addressing the …

Marine plastic: The solution is bigger than removal

MI García-Hermosa, LC Woodall - Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Despite the increase in the documentation on, and interest in marine debris, there remains a
gap between the analytic information available and the recommendations developed by …