Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology

Melanie Bergmann; Hans Peter H. Arp; Bethanie Carney Almroth; Win Cowger; Marcus Eriksen; Tridibesh Dey; Sedat Gündoğdu; Rebecca R. Helm; Anja Krieger; Kristian Syberg; Mine B. Tekman; Richard C. Thompson; Patricia Vilarubia-Gomez; Anish Kumar Warrier; Trisia Farrelly

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.022

Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology

Melanie Bergmann^*
, Hans Peter H. Arp
, Bethanie Carney Almroth
, Win Cowger
, Marcus Eriksen
, Tridibesh Dey
, Sedat Gündoğdu
, Rebecca R. Helm
, Anja Krieger
, Kristian Syberg
, Mine B. Tekman
, Richard C. Thompson
, Patricia Vilarubia-Gomez
, Anish Kumar Warrier
, Trisia Farrelly

^*Corresponding author

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Kommentar/debat › Forskning › peer review

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Abstract

Plastic removal technologies can temporarily mitigate plastic accumulation at local scales, but evidence-based criteria are needed in policies to ensure that they are feasible and that ecological benefits outweigh the costs. To reduce plastic pollution efficiently and economically, policy should prioritize regulating and reducing upstream production rather than downstream pollution cleanup.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	One Earth
Vol/bind	6
Udgave nummer	11
Sider (fra-til)	1439-1442
Antal sider	4
ISSN	2590-3330
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.022
Status	Udgivet - 17 nov. 2023

Bibliografisk note

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Finansiering

Funding Information: M.B. is funded by the PoF IV research program “Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future” of the German Helmholtz Association. H.P.H.A. is funded from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (No. 101036756). B.C.A. receives funding from Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas (No. 2021-00913). A.K.W. is funded by the Government of India's SERB-CRG research project on microplastics (File No. CRG/2021/004725, June 24, 2022). W.C. was funded in part by the McPike-Zima Charitable Foundation

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Bergmann, M., Arp, H. P. H., Carney Almroth, B., Cowger, W., Eriksen, M., Dey, T., Gündoğdu, S., Helm, R. R., Krieger, A., Syberg, K., Tekman, M. B., Thompson, R. C., Vilarubia-Gomez, P., Warrier, A. K., & Farrelly, T. (2023). Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology. One Earth, 6(11), 1439-1442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.022

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