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Plastic Pollution in Slovenia: From Plastic Waste Management to Research on Microplastics

˜The œhandbook of environmental chemistry 2019 7 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Gabriela Kalčíková, Andreja Žgajnar Gotvajn

Summary

Slovenia has made significant strides in plastic waste management and microplastic research in recent years, driven by EU environmental policy and growing scientific interest in freshwater and coastal contamination. The country's experience offers a model for how smaller nations can integrate waste policy improvements with systematic environmental monitoring.

Despite the increasing environmental awareness, there is still an enormous amount of plastic waste generated which often ends up in the environment. Slovenia is not an exception, and in the past years, there was a lot of effort to minimize plastic pollution in...

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