A local-to-global emissions inventory of macroplastic pollution.

ABSTRACT: Negotiations for a global treaty on plastic pollution¹ will shape future policies on plastics production, use and waste management. Its parties will benefit from a high-resolution baseline of waste flows and plastic emission sources to enable identification of pollution hotspots and their causes². Nationally aggregated waste management data can be distributed to smaller scales to identify generalized points of plastic accumulation and source phenomena^3-11. However, it is challenging to use this type of spatial allocation to assess the conditions under which emissions take place^12,13. Here we develop a global macroplastic pollution emissions inventory by combining conceptual modelling of emission mechanisms with measurable activity data. We define

SUBMITTER: Cottom JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374682 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature