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Impact of Plastic Pollution on the Environment and Application of Multidimensional Degradation Technology
Summary
This review examines plastic pollution from production through environmental fate, describing how the durability that makes plastics commercially valuable also drives global contamination, and surveys multidimensional degradation technologies including photodegradation, biodegradation, and combined strategies for managing plastic waste. The authors assess both current industry practices and emerging approaches for reducing plastic accumulation.
With the rapid development of the plastics industry, plastic degradation has formed a complex and diverse industry in just a few decades, occupying an important position in the development of the economy. Plastic products are widely used because of their low price, portability, and durability, but their difficult-to-biodegrade characteristics have led to serious environmental pollution problems worldwide, causing widespread international attention to effective plastic waste management and degradation technologies. Based on the current situation of production and technology development at home and abroad, this paper studies the mechanism and future development trend of degraded plastics by analyzing the degradation methods of biodegradable plastics, photothermal degradable plastics, starch-modified plastics, microbial degradable plastics, and so on. Multi-dimensional degradation technology and reuse is a necessary path for the sustainable development of the plastics industry, and also an effective way to solve the problem of plastic pollution.