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ClearPerspectives on education for sustainability in chemistry teaching
This review examines perspectives on integrating education for sustainability into chemistry teaching, addressing how unsustainable lifestyles drive climate change, water pollution, and resource depletion. The paper discusses how chemistry educators can align curricula with sustainable development principles to prepare students to meet future societal needs.
Chemistry must respond to the crisis of transgression of planetary boundaries
This paper argued that chemistry as a discipline must urgently respond to the transgression of planetary boundaries, including those related to chemical pollution. The study outlined three steps: understanding the threats from a chemistry perspective, developing sustainable solutions through innovation, and transforming chemistry education and industry toward sustainability and circularity.
Chemistry and materials science for a sustainable circular polymeric economy
Researchers reflected on the fundamental chemistry challenges limiting a circular plastic economy — including the sheer variety of polymer types, contamination during use, and imperfect recycling — and argued that solving plastic pollution requires both chemical innovation and systemic non-chemical interventions.
Chemicals management approach to sustainable development of materials
This review examines how chemicals management approaches must evolve for sustainable materials development, arguing that planetary boundaries and path-dependent industrial trajectories require rethinking how chemicals including plastics are produced and regulated.
Sustainable Development Issues in Chemistry Learning as Educational for Sustainable Development Implementation: A Systematic Literature Review
This systematic literature review synthesized research on integrating sustainable development issues into chemistry education. While not directly about microplastics, it identified microplastic pollution as one of the sustainability topics being incorporated into chemistry curricula to help students understand real-world environmental challenges.
Pedagogical Purposes of Scientifical and Technological Literacy within Sustainable and Green Chemistry in the High School
This paper distinguishes between environmental, sustainable, and green chemistry and discusses how these frameworks can be integrated into high school science education. Teaching students about plastic pollution and its chemical impacts is part of developing scientifically literate citizens.
Addressing the sustainability challenges for polymers in liquid formulations
This perspectives piece identifies the sustainability challenges facing polymer use in liquid formulations, particularly around persistence and environmental fate, and reviews the role of chemistry in developing more sustainable alternatives. A call to action is made for the field to prioritize solution-oriented research.
High School Sustainable and Green Chemistry: Historical–Epistemological and Pedagogical Considerations
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a chemistry education paper discussing how to better integrate sustainable and green chemistry into high school curricula, tracing the history of the Science, Technology, and Society movement and advocating for systems thinking approaches.
Expanding plastics recycling technologies: chemical aspects, technology status and challenges
This review examined the full life cycle of plastics and evaluated options for managing plastic waste, with a focus on chemical recycling technologies. The study suggests that overcoming barriers to industrial chemical recycling could open new opportunities for reducing plastic pollution.
Towards sustainable environmental chemistry: A comprehensive review
This review traces the evolution of environmental chemistry toward sustainability, covering recent advances in green catalysis, waste valorization, AI-assisted environmental monitoring, carbon capture, and bioremediation as tools for reducing chemical pollution including microplastics.
First Steps Toward Sustainable Circular Uses of Chemicals: Advancing the Assessment and Management Paradigm
This article advances a framework for sustainable circular use of chemicals, proposing updated assessment and management approaches to reduce chemical hazards while enabling circularity in industrial and consumer product systems.
Chemistry’s Role in Malaysia Sustainable Development Progress
This brief review summarises chemistry's role in Malaysia's progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, drawing on a special topic article published in Pure and Applied Chemistry. The piece serves as an overview pointing readers to deeper reference material on Malaysian sustainable development contributions across chemistry-related SDG targets.
Advances in green chemistry and engineering
This editorial introduces a collection of research on green chemistry and engineering, fields that aim to make chemical production safer for the environment and human health. While not specifically about microplastics, green chemistry principles are directly relevant to developing less toxic plastics, biodegradable alternatives, and cleaner manufacturing processes. The collection highlights the role of sustainable chemistry in achieving environmental protection goals.
Work-In-Progress: Integrating Sustainability Across the Chemical Engineering Curriculum
This work-in-progress describes efforts to integrate sustainability concepts, including plastic pollution and circular economy principles, across the chemical engineering curriculum, developing case studies and learning objectives for engineering students.
A multidisciplinary perspective on the role of plastic pollution in the triple planetary crisis.
This perspective paper argues that plastics are a central driver of all three dimensions of the planetary crisis — pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss — and must be addressed with the same urgency as carbon emissions. The authors call for a multidisciplinary approach that recognizes plastics as a systemic environmental threat rather than a siloed waste management issue.
Perspectives on sustainable plastic treatment: A shift from linear to circular economy
This review examines emerging technologies for converting plastic waste into useful chemicals and fuels, including methods like pyrolysis, photocatalysis, and electrocatalysis. Researchers highlight how these approaches could shift plastic management from a throw-away model to a circular economy where waste becomes a resource. The study identifies remaining knowledge gaps and proposes future research directions for sustainable plastic treatment.
Sustainable Development Goals and Analytical Chemistry
This review examines the role analytical chemistry plays in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting how chemical measurement and monitoring underpin progress in water quality, food safety, environmental protection, and health. The authors argue for greater integration of analytical science into SDG frameworks and policy.
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research
This paper argues that chemical pollution, including microplastics, deserves far more attention in biodiversity research alongside climate change and habitat loss. Evidence shows that anthropogenic chemicals are a growing threat to ecosystems worldwide, yet pollution is often left out of biodiversity studies. The authors call for interdisciplinary collaboration between ecologists and environmental chemists to better understand and combat pollution-driven biodiversity decline.
A critical review on sustainable hazardous waste management strategies: a step towards a circular economy
Researchers review global strategies for managing hazardous industrial and household waste — including chemicals, heavy metals, and electronic waste — with a focus on aligning disposal practices with circular economy principles that minimize environmental and health harm. The review finds that prevention, recycling, and advanced treatment technologies must work together, guided by stronger international policy frameworks.
The Frontier of Plastics Recycling: Rethinking Waste as a Resource for High‐Value Applications
This review examines the current state and future prospects of plastics recycling within a circular economy framework, arguing that mechanical recycling alone is insufficient and that chemical recycling, design-for-recyclability, and extended producer responsibility must all be scaled simultaneously. The authors identify high-value applications for recycled plastics as essential incentives for building economically sustainable recycling systems.
A Review of Green Chemistry Applications in the Mitigation of Prevalences of Nanoplastic Pollution
This review examines how green chemistry principles — including biosourced materials, biodegradable polymers, and environmentally benign synthesis routes — can be applied to develop more sustainable approaches to detecting, removing, and mitigating nanoplastic pollution.
Innovations for sustainable chemical manufacturing and waste minimization through green production practices
This review examined green production practices and technologies for sustainable chemical manufacturing, covering recyclable materials, waste minimization, and energy reduction strategies. The paper addressed growing plastic and electronic waste challenges and evaluated industrial approaches to minimizing environmental impact through greener production processes.
Shaping a federal strategy for chemical recycling: Moving toward sensible applications of emerging technologies in US plastic waste management
This policy analysis examined how chemical recycling technologies fit within US federal plastic waste management frameworks alongside mechanical recycling and other strategies. The paper identified key policy questions about how emerging chemical recycling processes should be regulated to meet national and international goals for reducing plastic pollution.
A physical chemistry lens on environmental nanoplastics analysis challenges. Part II: detection techniques – principles, limitations and future directions
A physical chemistry perspective examined the analytical challenges of measuring environmental nanoplastics, arguing that standard methods often miss or mischaracterize the smallest particles. The paper calls for improved analytical frameworks to better understand nanoplastic behavior and biological risks.