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ClearWater pollution from food production: lessons for optimistic and optimal solutions
Researchers proposed a multi-pollutant framework for assessing water pollution from food production, drawing lessons from how air quality science handles multiple contaminants simultaneously. The study argues that future water quality assessments should better integrate economic and social goals alongside environmental targets, using participatory approaches to develop practical and politically feasible solutions.
Decoding derogation: The impact of environmental values and political ideology on the effect of persuasive message about recycle and reuse behaviors
Researchers examined how environmental values and political ideology influence reactions to persuasive messages about plastic pollution, finding that these personal belief systems shape message derogation in distinct ways that subsequently affect risk perception, self-efficacy, and individuals' intentions to recycle and reuse plastics.
Mediating and Moderating Factors Affecting Pro-environmental Decision-Making: A Spanish Study
Researchers investigated the mediating role of perceived responsibility and the moderating role of political ideology on pro-environmental decision-making in a Spanish population. The study found that perceived responsibility partially mediated the relationship between environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior, with political orientation moderating the strength of these effects.
Environmental laws and politics, the relevance of implementing regulation of the presence of emerging pollutants in Mexico: a systematic review
This meta-analysis reviews environmental regulations for emerging pollutants across different countries, with a focus on Mexico's regulatory gaps. The findings highlight that many countries lack adequate rules for controlling pollutants like microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals in water, leaving populations potentially exposed to harmful contaminants.
Unveiling environmental governance and political economy dynamics in rural plastic pollution management: a case study of Ogun State, Nigeria
This study analyzed environmental governance and political economy dynamics shaping plastic pollution management in rural communities, finding that power structures and economic incentives often undermine collective action. The authors argue that local governance reforms are needed to translate global plastic reduction goals into community-level change.
Environmental Blindspots: Identification and Mitigation using Technologies, Education, and Policies
Researchers define the concept of environmental blindspots -- pollution problems deprioritized due to corporate interests, consumer preferences, or regulatory inertia -- and propose technology, education, and policy approaches to address them.
Multiple Pollutants from Crop and Livestock Production in the Yangtze River: Status and Challenges
Researchers examined multiple agricultural pollutants -- including chemical fertilizers, organophosphorus pesticides, and plastic waste -- in the Yangtze River Basin, finding that intensified cash crop and livestock production is driving water quality degradation and threatening Agriculture Green Development goals.
Watershed-Based Governance for Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution: Empirical Insights from the Yangtze River Economic Belt
Researchers examined how China's 'Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution Prevention and Control' affected pollutant emissions across the Yangtze River Economic Belt, using econometric analysis across three governance pathways. They found the policy significantly reduced emissions by curbing mulch film use and consolidating breeding farms, but had no measurable effect on rural domestic pollution due to pre-existing infrastructure investments.
Water Pollution and Agriculture: Multi-pollutant Perspectives
This review examines agriculture as a multi-pollutant source of water contamination, identifying large spatial and temporal variation in nutrient, pesticide, plastic, and pathogen loads and arguing that agricultural water management strategies must account for these simultaneous pollutant interactions.
Is it all talk: Do politicians that promote environmental messages on social media actually vote-in environmental policy?
A study of UK politicians found that the frequency of environmental messages on Twitter does not reliably predict whether politicians will vote for pro-environmental legislation. While some correlation existed, many politicians who posted environmental content did not follow through with consistent policy votes. The findings suggest social media environmental messaging may be more performative than predictive of actual policy commitment.
Perceived Approaches to Abating Microplastic Pollution in Chicago-Area Waterways
This study explored how conflicts of interest and differing belief systems among stakeholders in the Chicago area create barriers to developing effective microplastic pollution legislation. Using an advocacy coalition framework, it highlights the political and social dynamics that can slow environmental policy action.
Exploring how municipalities address microplastics pollution in stormwater – a case study in a Swedish municipality
Researchers investigated how one Swedish municipality has approached the problem of microplastic pollution in stormwater, finding that most actions targeted rubber crumb infill from artificial turf fields and plastic litter. Despite political prioritization and a formal action plan, limited resources constrained implementation of broader measures. The study offers a practical example of how local governments navigate emerging pollutants that lack strict regulatory frameworks, which is relevant for developing national microplastics policy.
Demonstration and Suggestion on the Communication Efficiency of New Media of Environmental Education Based on Ideological and Political Education
This paper examines how new media and social platforms can improve the reach and effectiveness of environmental education campaigns, arguing that combining new media communication strategies with ideological and political education frameworks can enhance public environmental awareness.
Why Environmental Pollution Remains Unresolved Despite Efforts to Mitigate It?
This review examines why environmental pollution persists despite mitigation efforts, identifying industrialization, technological cost barriers, weak regulatory enforcement, regulatory capture by industrial lobbies, and insufficient public awareness as the primary systemic reasons that pollution control remains ineffective, particularly in developing nations.
Plastic Pollution in Soils: Governance Approaches to Foster Soil Health and Closed Nutrient Cycles
This governance analysis finds that existing European and German environmental regulations do not adequately address microplastic pollution in agricultural soils, and command-and-control legislation alone is insufficient to solve a problem driven by the sheer volume of plastic in circulation. The authors argue that phasing out fossil fuels globally is ultimately necessary to address plastic pollution at its source.
Evolving environmental awareness and shifts in management priorities: a socioeconomic lens on the min river basin, China
Not relevant to microplastics — this paper uses socioeconomic analysis and machine learning to study shifting environmental management priorities in China's Min River basin, focusing on water quality and land use.
A threat to democracy? Water protests in France and Germany
Researchers examined water protest movements in France and Germany through the lens of democratic theory, analysing how environmental crisis narratives are deployed to justify exercises of power and how such narratives can be used both to mobilise civic action and to curtail democratic authority over water governance.
Use of scientific evidence to inform environmental health policies and governance strategies at the local level
Researchers examined how scientific evidence informs environmental health policies at the local governance level, finding gaps between available research on emerging contaminants like microplastics and their translation into effective regulatory strategies.
Towards nutrient neutrality: A review of agricultural runoff mitigation strategies and the development of a decision-making framework.
This paper is not about microplastics; it reviews agricultural runoff mitigation strategies to reduce nutrient pollution in waterways.
New Model for Quantifying the Impact of the Social Economy on Water Resources’ Sustainability
This study models correlations between social economy indicators and water resource sustainability across EU27 countries, finding that environmental protection spending tends to cover ecological objectives even when exceeding budget allocations. The study is not related to microplastic research.
Emerging Contaminants in Water Resources: Monitoring Gaps, Treatment Limitations and Governance Challenges in a Global Context with Insights from Portugal
Researchers conducted a systematic review following PRISMA 2020 guidelines on emerging contaminants in water resources, finding pesticides, antibiotics, and antidepressants increasingly prevalent in surface and groundwater worldwide, while highlighting monitoring asymmetries, limited treatment efficiency, and critical gaps between scientific advances and regulatory implementation particularly in Portugal.
Impactanalyse verontreinigingen natuurdoelen Westerschelde : literatuursurvey overige contaminanten
This literature survey reviewed contamination levels of various pollutants in the Westerschelde estuary and Gent-Terneuzen Canal in the Netherlands, assessing ecological risks to the estuary's designated nature conservation targets.
Which\nMicropollutants in Water Environments Deserve\nMore Attention Globally?
This review analyzed which organic micropollutants in water environments deserve the most global attention based on their toxicity, occurrence frequency, and persistence. Microplastics are among the contaminants considered, alongside pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals that routinely escape conventional water treatment and accumulate in aquatic ecosystems.
Which\nMicropollutants in Water Environments Deserve\nMore Attention Globally?
This review analyzed which organic micropollutants in water environments deserve the most global attention based on their toxicity, occurrence frequency, and persistence. Microplastics are among the contaminants considered, alongside pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals that routinely escape conventional water treatment and accumulate in aquatic ecosystems.