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Plastic Recycling and Microplastic Emissions
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Researchers reviewed microplastic emissions associated with plastic recycling processes, identifying recycling facilities as underrecognized sources of microplastic pollution and discussing how different recycling technologies vary in their potential to generate and release particles into the environment.
Anthropogenic microplastic (MP) pollution has attracted increasingly attention in the last decades due to its potential adverse effect on human health. Several sources were identified as well as potential reducing strategies discussed and suggested. Plastics...
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