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Toward sustainable election campaigns: Addressing microplastic pollution from promotional materials

Researchers qualitatively assessed the potential for election campaign banners and posters to generate microplastics through weathering processes, identifying polymer types used in campaign materials and their degradation characteristics. The study found that campaign plastic waste is a significant and underappreciated source of environmental microplastic pollution.

2025 Science Progress
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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.

2024 Cambridge Prisms Plastics 2 citations
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Plastic waste micro-management towards innovative sustainable living in inspiring art practice

This paper is not directly about microplastic science; it describes a participatory art project in a Malaysian village where artists and communities collaborated to manage plastic waste and raise awareness about plastic pollution through sustainable art practices.

2023 International Journal of Asian Social Science 1 citations
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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.

2024 1 citations
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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.

2021 Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research 3 citations
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Eksplorasi Limbah Plastik Dalam Karya Seni Rupa

This Indonesian art project uses plastic waste as raw material to create 2-dimensional artworks, framing artistic creation as a way to reduce plastic waste and raise environmental awareness. The artist notes that plastics take 500-1000 years to degrade but still leave microplastic particles that harm living things.

2021 Brikolase Jurnal Kajian Teori Praktik dan Wacana Seni Budaya Rupa 2 citations
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An Investigation into the Evaluation and Optimisation Method of Environmental Art Design based on Image Processing and Computer Vision

This paper explores using computer vision and image processing to evaluate environmental art and design installations. It is not related to microplastics or environmental health research. The study focuses entirely on algorithms for assessing visual aesthetics and audience engagement with art.

2025 Scalable Computing Practice and Experience 5 citations
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“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.

2026
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Microplásticos: uma abordagem prática para produção de plástico biodegradável como estratégia de educação ambiental no ensino básico

Researchers surveyed 146 high school students in Gravataí, Brazil, on their awareness of microplastic pollution and then conducted a hands-on bioplastic production activity as an environmental education intervention. Results showed that approximately 71% of students had limited prior knowledge of microplastics, and the practical activity significantly improved awareness and motivated behavioral reflection about plastic consumption.

2022 Brazilian Journal of Science 2 citations
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The Persistence of Plastic: Environmental Public Art and Micro-Plastic Pollution

This study explored whether environmental public art about plastic pollution can motivate behavioral change in Australian audiences. Survey responses from art exhibit visitors showed increased concern and pro-environmental intentions, suggesting that arts-based communication strategies can complement scientific messaging in addressing microplastic contamination.

2020 Figshare 1 citations
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A Study On Creating Awareness Of Plastic Usage To Promote Sustainable Practices For A Greener Future

This study examines educational interventions and awareness campaigns aimed at reducing plastic consumption and promoting sustainable practices, evaluating their effectiveness in shifting public attitudes and behaviors toward a lower-plastic future.

2025 International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
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This artistic installation explores the relationship between humanity and nature through videography, mycology, and ecofeminist philosophy in an immersive ecological experience. It is a humanities artwork rather than a scientific research paper on microplastics.

2021
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The effect of biodegradable plastics on microplastic accumulation and exposure

Researchers developed a comprehensive method to quantify microplastic accumulation from biodegradable polymers in natural environments, examining whether biodegradable alternatives actually reduce plastic loads compared to conventional polymers under real-world outdoor conditions.

2025 Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling
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Biodegradable Packaging : a Key to Environmental Sustainability

This paper reviews biodegradable packaging alternatives to conventional plastics, arguing that plant-based materials can reduce microplastic pollution in oceans, soil, and food systems. The authors survey available materials and manufacturing methods as part of a broader case for environmental sustainability.

2024 International Association of Biologicals and Computational Digest
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Understanding microplastics, and visual art as a method of communication: scientific poster versus painting

This study found that over 30% of people preferred a painting over a scientific poster as a way to understand information about microplastics and human health. Visual art may be an effective tool for raising public awareness about the risks of microplastic pollution.

2021
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Microplásticos, Seus Impactos No Ambiente E Maneiras Biodegradáveis De Substituição.

This Portuguese-language review examined microplastics as major aquatic and terrestrial pollutants, summarizing their sources, environmental distribution, and impacts on ecosystems, and reviewing biodegradable alternatives as a strategy to reduce future plastic fragment accumulation.

2021 Revista Internacional de Ciências 13 citations
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Designing motion graphics as a zero waste lifestyle campaign media for the Indonesian people

Researchers developed motion graphics as a campaign medium to promote zero-waste lifestyles among Indonesian people, responding to the surge in plastic waste resulting from COVID-19 social restrictions and increased online commerce. The study examined plastic waste impacts on the Gorontalo coastal ecosystem and designed visual communication materials to raise awareness about microplastic pollution entering the food chain.

2022 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 2 citations
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Plastic Pollution and Its Alternatives

This presentation reviewed the scale of plastic pollution, focusing on how plastics accumulate in oceans as non-biodegradable microplastics and nanoplastics that contaminate ecosystems and food chains. The authors outlined alternative materials and policy interventions as pathways to reduce plastic's environmental footprint.

2025 Open Schools Journal for Open Science
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Plastic Pollution and Its Alternatives

This presentation reviewed the scale of plastic pollution, focusing on how plastics accumulate in oceans as non-biodegradable microplastics and nanoplastics that contaminate ecosystems and food chains. The authors outlined alternative materials and policy interventions as pathways to reduce plastic's environmental footprint.

2025 Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences (University of Skopje)
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In-soil degradation of polymer materials waste – A survey of different approaches in relation with environmental impact

This review surveys the in-soil degradation of polymer materials — including natural fibers, synthetic plastics, and composites — examining how environmental factors such as UV radiation, microorganisms, moisture, and temperature drive degradation and influence the environmental impact of plastic waste in terrestrial ecosystems.

2022 BioResources 6 citations
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Potentials of synthetic biodegradable mulch for improved livelihoods on smallholder farmers: a systematic review

This systematic review evaluates biodegradable mulch as an alternative to conventional plastic mulch in farming, which is a major source of microplastic contamination in agricultural soils. Switching to biodegradable options could help reduce the buildup of microplastics in the soil where food crops are grown.

2024 Frontiers in Agronomy 8 citations
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Plastic Wetland, An investigation into provocative landscape design

This landscape design research project explores provocative design interventions that respond to plastic debris accumulation in coastal and wetland environments. It is a creative design study aimed at raising awareness about plastic fragmentation and its ecological consequences.

2020
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iMulch: an investigation of the influence of polymers on a terrestrial ecosystem using the example of mulch films used in agriculture

This research project studied how plastic mulch films used in farming break down into microplastics in soil, comparing conventional polyethylene films with biodegradable alternatives. The findings show that both types of mulch release microplastic particles into agricultural soil, though they behave differently in the environment, raising questions about the true sustainability of biodegradable farm plastics.

2025 Environmental Sciences Europe 13 citations
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Vanishing Point Unseen : an art/science collaboration and exhibition on the impact of microplastics in our oceans

This paper describes Vanishing Point, an art-science collaboration and exhibition raising public awareness of ocean plastic pollution and its ecological and social impacts. The project illustrates how scientific findings about microplastics can be communicated to broader audiences through visual art and storytelling.

2017 Figshare