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The Plastic Cycle – An Unknown Branch of the Carbon Cycle
Frontiers in Marine Science
2021
105 citations
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Score: 50
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Xia Zhu
Xia Zhu
Xia Zhu
Xia Zhu
Xia Zhu
Xia Zhu
Xia Zhu
Xia Zhu
Xia Zhu
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Xia Zhu
Xia Zhu
Summary
This opinion article argued that plastics represent an unknown branch of the global carbon cycle, noting that plastics store fossilized carbon, release it during degradation, and interact with biological carbon cycling in ways not captured by current Earth system models.
OPINION article Front. Mar. Sci., 14 January 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.609243
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