Do we need more research on the environmental impacts of plastics?

We question whether the rapid growth in research on the impacts of environmental plastics over the last decade has substantially improved our understanding of these impacts. By the mid-1990s, the major environmental and economic impacts of plastics were sufficiently well known to conclude that they...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peter G Ryan, Takunda Y Chitaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2022-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8ab5