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Gwinnett Recycles | 2021
In 2020, Gwinnett Recycles set forth on a citizen science project to collect and analyze the trash found in the environment in their community. Over nine months, they brought citizens together for litter cleanups in each of Gwinnett County, Georgia’s 16 cities and logged details about the plastic waste they collected.
Natural Resources Defense Council | 2022
This briefing exposes the growing use of microplastics in agrochemical products, the industry’s promotion of this practice, and its threats to human health and the environment. It concludes that, in the face of known risks and the significant probability that plastic-coated fertilizers and pesticides only add to existing harm from toxic chemicals and microplastic, their production and use should be banned.
Heather A. Leslie, Martin J.M. van Velzen, Sicco H. Brandsma, A. Dick Vethaak, Juan J. Garcia-Vallejo, Marja H. Lamoree | 2022
This pioneering human biomonitoring study demonstrated that plastic particles are bioavailable for uptake into the human bloodstream. An understanding of the exposure of these substances in humans and the associated hazard of such exposure is needed to determine whether or not plastic particle exposure is a public health risk.
Exit Plastik | 2022
This topic page on the website of the German civil society alliance Exit Plastik provides an overview of the topic of reusable packaging. It contains information and links to further materials and campaigns by Exit Plastik Alliance and its members.
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