Drowning in Plastics : Marine Litter and Plastic Waste Vital Graphics
Waste Management and Pollution Control
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Baker, Elaine
,
Rucevska, Ieva
,
Tsakona, Marina
,
et al
2021
Global plastics production has risen exponentially over the last decades - now amounting to some 400 million tonnes per year. Although plastic serves many useful purposes, its rapidly growing production and consumption coupled with a lack of a circular approaches keeping plastic in the economy and out of the environment.