The climate impact of plastic pollution is negligible - the production of new plastics is the real problem.

Autor: Kvale, Karin, Weaver, Andrew, Gurgacz, Natalia
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Zdroj: Conversation (Conversation Media Group Ltd); 10/19/2023, p1-1, 1p, 2 Color Photographs
Abstrakt: Concerns have been raised that this could disrupt global carbon cycling by acting as an alternative carbon source for bacteria, which consume organic carbon. Organic carbon leaching from plastic pollution In nature, plants make organic carbon (carbon-hydrogen compounds) from inorganic carbon (carbon compounds not bonded with hydrogen) through photosynthesis. [Extracted from the article]
Databáze: Complementary Index