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Plastic Pollution and the Chesapeake Bay: The Food System and Beyond
Estuaries of the world
2020
5 citations
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Robert C. Hale,
Meredith Evans Seeley,
Benjamin E. Cuker
Summary
Researchers examined plastic pollution in the Chesapeake Bay with a focus on food system packaging as a primary source, arguing that reducing plastic waste from food supply chains is essential to protecting one of North America's most ecologically and economically important estuaries.
Plastic pollution is a widespread problem across the world’s oceans, bays, estuaries and rivers. Much of this waste is the residue of food system packaging. Excessive production of these durable polymers and inappropriate disposal lead to their...