期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 55, 期 12, 页码 7770-7775出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c00818
关键词
public policy; monitoring; reporting plastic waste; pollution; ecosystem
资金
- Norway Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries (Institute of Marine Research Ocean Health Strategic Initiative) [15494]
- IAEA
- ERC Advanced Grant [694368]
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Medical Research Council, UK (MRC) [MR/R026521/1]
- MA Seaport Economic Council grant
- Norwegian Research Council [301157]
- North Atlantic Microplastic Centre (NAMC)
- Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science and Technology Development, RDA [PJ01475801]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) in Korea [NRF-2021R1A2C2011734]
- MRC [MR/R026521/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The urgent need for an integrated, global monitoring system for plastic pollution to provide comprehensive, harmonized data for environmental, societal, and economic assessments is emphasized in this article. The proposed earth-system-level plastic observation system aims to collect and assess the scale and impacts of plastic pollution across various ecosystems, including air, land, water, and biota. It strives to integrate new information, identify pollution hotspots, and expand monitoring from marine environments to encompass all ecosystem types in order to support public policy and corporate contributions to relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental challenges and has received commensurate widespread attention. Although it is a top priority for policymakers and scientists alike, the knowledge required to guide decisions, implement mitigation actions, and assess their outcomes remains inadequate. We argue that an integrated, global monitoring system for plastic pollution is needed to provide comprehensive, harmonized data for environmental, societal, and economic assessments. The initial focus on marine ecosystems has been expanded here to include atmospheric transport and terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. An earth-system-level plastic observation system is proposed as a hub for collecting and assessing the scale and impacts of plastic pollution across a wide array of particle sizes and ecosystems including air, land, water, and biota and to monitor progress toward ameliorating this problem. The proposed observation system strives to integrate new information and to identify pollution hotspots (i.e., production facilities, cities, roads, ports, etc.) and expands monitoring from marine environments to encompass all ecosystem types. Eventually, such a system will deliver knowledge to support public policy and corporate contributions to the relevant United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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