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Editorial: Plastics in the environment: Understanding impacts and identifying solutions, volume II
Summary
This editorial introduces the second volume of a Frontiers collection on plastics in the environment, with this volume focusing specifically on plastics in soils and the degradation pathways of plastic materials including expanded polystyrene. The editors argue that improving the circularity of plastic use requires understanding how plastics degrade, accumulate, and cause harm in terrestrial environments.
Our first collection of Frontiers articles highlighted the broad diversity of environmental problems caused by the mismanagement of plastics in different settings, and the many challenges that scientists, managers, regulators and stakeholders face in addressing these problems (Filella et al., 2021). This, second series essentially deals with plastics in soils and the degradation of plastic (and in particular, expanded polystyrene). Improving the circularity and management of plastics in soils requires an understanding of their presence, impacts and degradation pathways.