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Plastics in the Earth system.
Stubbins, Aron; Law, Kara Lavender; Muñoz, Samuel E; Bianchi, Thomas S; Zhu, Lixin.
Afiliação
  • Stubbins A; Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. aron.stubbins@northeastern.edu.
  • Law KL; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Muñoz SE; Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
  • Bianchi TS; Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Zhu L; Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Science ; 373(6550): 51-55, 2021 07 02.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34210876
Plastic contamination of the environment is a global problem whose magnitude justifies the consideration of plastics as emergent geomaterials with chemistries not previously seen in Earth's history. At the elemental level, plastics are predominantly carbon. The comparison of plastic stocks and fluxes to those of carbon reveals that the quantities of plastics present in some ecosystems rival the quantity of natural organic carbon and suggests that geochemists should now consider plastics in their analyses. Acknowledging plastics as geomaterials and adopting geochemical insights and methods can expedite our understanding of plastics in the Earth system. Plastics also can be used as global-scale tracers to advance Earth system science.

Texto completo: 1 Bases de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Science Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Bases de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Science Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos