Climate Change Plastics

Meet the ONLY waste type contributing to climate change, reduce it in five ways; and keep resources in the system.

Meet the ONLY waste type contributing to climate change, reduce it in five ways; and keep resources in the system.

"We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do." —Barbara Wood

Is it okay to use potting soil? Which plants are best for absorbing pollution? What's the alternative to carbon-packed fertilizers? How can I cut out single-use plastics?

Is it okay to use potting soil? Which plants are best for absorbing pollution? What's the alternative to carbon-packed fertilizers? How can I cut out single-use plastics?

This book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects on biota, food security, and human exposure. Importantly, global environmental change and its associated, systems-level processes, including atmospheric deposition, ecosystem complexity, UV exposure, wind patterns, water stratification, ocean circulation, etc., are all important direct and indirect factors governing the fate, transport and biotic and abiotic processing of plastic particles across ecosystem types.