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ClearPlastic Humanities: Revaluing Humanistic Inquiry in the Plastic Age
This humanities essay argued for the value of humanistic inquiry in addressing the environmental and cultural consequences of the 'Plastic Age,' proposing the concept of 'plastic humanities' as an interdisciplinary framework. The work makes the case that understanding plastics' social and cultural dimensions is essential alongside scientific approaches.
Social fields and natural systems: integrating knowledge about society and nature
This theoretical paper proposes combining sociological field theory with systems thinking to better analyze sustainability challenges. The integrated approach could help researchers understand how social structures shape human responses to environmental problems like plastic pollution.
Societal Relations to Nature in Times of Crisis—Social Ecology’s Contributions to Interdisciplinary Sustainability Studies
This review article examined how social ecology — an interdisciplinary field — approaches the crisis of societal relationships with nature, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. It provides theoretical frameworks relevant to understanding why plastic pollution persists despite growing awareness of its harms.
Next steps for research on society and microplastics
This perspective paper assessed the contributions of social and behavioral sciences to microplastics research, covering policy analysis, public education, and stakeholder engagement. The authors argue for greater integration of social science methods to understand and reduce plastic pollution at the human systems level.
Plastiglomerates, Microplastics, Nanoplastics
This essay explores the cultural and ecological meaning of plastic pollution through art and speculative design, examining how plastics have become embedded in every environment including the human body. It argues that understanding plastic as part of a 'dark ecology' is essential for rethinking our relationship with synthetic materials.
Living in the Plastic Age
This interdisciplinary work examines plastic pollution from societal and environmental perspectives, arguing that ubiquitous plastic waste and its conversion to microplastics has become so pervasive in shaping human-nature relationships that it defines a distinct 'Plastic Age,' and exploring implications for human health and pathways toward systemic change.
Our life with plastic, a review of plastic product abuse in the age of consumerism
This review examines the psychology, sociology, and culture of plastic consumerism alongside the scientific evidence for microplastic health harms, arguing that social sciences should complement natural science research by promoting rational product choices and awareness.
Next steps for research on society and microplastics
This perspective paper outlined priority directions for social and behavioral science research on microplastics, building on the established contributions of social sciences to understanding policy, stakeholder views, and public behavior around plastic pollution. The authors called for greater integration of social science methods to address governance gaps and support effective microplastic management.
Plastamination, Human Health, and Countries’ Cultural Orientation: An Exploratory Study on Prevention Strategies and Organizational Policies and Practices
Researchers conducted a systematic bibliometric review of microplastic and nanoplastic contamination (plastamination) literature from 1974 to 2025, examining biological, medical, engineering, and cultural dimensions of the problem, and finding that integrated multidisciplinary approaches linking technology, culture, and medicine are essential for developing effective global prevention strategies and organizational policies.
Eco-Art and Reeling in Anthropogenic Adversity
This paper explores how eco-art practices can raise awareness of anthropogenic pollution, including microplastics, by engaging communities through creative and visual approaches. The authors argue that artistic interventions can complement scientific communication in addressing environmental adversity.
Science-society-policy interface for microplastic and nanoplastic: Environmental and biomedical aspects
This review proposed a new conceptual framework for addressing microplastic and nanoplastic pollution at the science-society-policy interface, covering detection methods, environmental and health impacts, and regulatory approaches.
“The Rejected Remains as Fact”
This paper explores how contemporary artists are responding to the pervasive presence of microplastics and nanoplastics through visual and performative works. Researchers examine how art projects have shifted from environmental alarm toward speculative scenarios of plastic-human coexistence, drawing on the concept of the plastisphere. The study suggests that artistic investigations can reframe our understanding of plastic pollution by exploring cultural and material dimensions beyond purely scientific perspectives.
A transdisciplinary approach to reducing global plastic pollution
This opinion piece advocates for a transdisciplinary approach to reducing global plastic pollution, emphasizing the need to integrate natural science, social science, governance, and industry perspectives to develop effective and equitable solutions to the plastic pollution crisis.
Ecotoxicological Impacts of Micro(Nano)plastics in the Environment: Biotic and Abiotic Interactions
This editorial or overview paper addresses the ecotoxicological impacts of micro- and nanoplastics across both biotic (organisms) and abiotic (physical and chemical) dimensions, framing the problem as a multifaceted challenge involving environmental contamination, ecosystem health, and potential human health risks. It underscores the need for integrated approaches across disciplines and stakeholder groups to fully understand and manage plastic pollution. The work contributes a broad conceptual framing for ongoing research into microplastic hazards.
Microplastics in the environment: The role of polymer science
This paper highlights why understanding polymer science is essential for addressing the microplastics problem. Researchers argue that microplastics behave differently from other microparticles because of their unique polymer-specific interactions with the environment and living organisms. The study calls for interdisciplinary collaboration between polymer scientists and environmental researchers to develop better identification methods, risk assessments, and remediation strategies.
The human dimension: how social and behavioural research methods can help address microplastics in the environment
This paper outlines how social and behavioral science research methods — including surveys, interviews, and behavioral experiments — can be applied to understand human dimensions of the microplastic pollution problem. Addressing plastic pollution requires not just environmental science but also understanding why people produce, use, and dispose of plastics as they do.
The plastic-scape: Applying seascape ecology to marine plastic pollution
This review proposes applying seascape ecology — the study of how patterns and processes shape marine environments — as a systematic framework for understanding and managing marine plastic pollution, arguing it can replace the current reactive, fragmented policy approaches.
Microplastics
This overview paper introduced the topic of microplastics — their origins, classification, environmental distribution, and ecological significance — as an entry point into the broader field of plastic pollution science. It contextualizes current research challenges and policy needs.
Waste Journeys
This multidisciplinary study examined plastic waste as a material of the Anthropocene by tracing the journeys of plastic objects across cultural, natural, marine, and terrestrial landscapes, exploring how plastic's resilience makes it a defining and problematic artifact of modern civilization.
Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork
This study explores how upcycling discarded plastics into artwork can serve as a tool for environmental education about plastic pollution. Researchers describe an art installation collaboration that brought together the art world and environmental advocacy to raise public awareness. The study suggests that creative approaches to reusing plastic waste can effectively engage communities in understanding the scale and consequences of plastic pollution.
Por uma arqueologia do antropoceno: tempo, identidade e novos artefactos numa nova era
This Portuguese-language archaeology paper discusses the emergence of 'Anthropocene Archaeology' — the study of human artifacts and materials from the current geological era of human dominance. Plastics, including microplastics, are among the defining material markers of the Anthropocene that will be part of this archaeological record.
The “Microplastome” – A Holistic Perspective to Capture the Real-World Ecology of Microplastics
This paper introduces the concept of the "microplastome," a framework for studying microplastics along with everything attached to them, including absorbed chemicals and colonizing microbes, as a unified system. The authors argue that current research too often looks at microplastics in isolation, when in reality the attached pollutants and bacteria may be just as important for understanding health effects. This more complete approach could lead to better risk assessments of how microplastic pollution actually affects ecosystems and human health.
The Art of (Up)Recycling: How Plastic Debris Has Become a Matter of Art?
This art and culture paper examines how contemporary artists have used plastic waste as a medium, exploring how art can communicate environmental concerns about plastic pollution to the public. The work documents artistic responses to the global plastic crisis. While not a scientific study, art-based approaches are relevant to raising public awareness about microplastic contamination and motivating behavioral change.
Transdisciplinary science and the importance of Indigenous knowledge
This paper is not directly about microplastics — it is a conceptual article arguing that transdisciplinary science and Indigenous knowledge partnerships are essential for achieving transformational environmental sustainability outcomes, using pollution as one example of complex challenges requiring such approaches.