Mare Plasticum - The Plastic Sea Combatting Plastic Pollution Throug
This book, written by a multidisciplinary team of authors comprising scientists, artists and communicators, explores one of the most pressing issues of our time – the menace plastics pose to marine environments and organisms. It takes readers on a journey
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Mare Plasticum – The Plastic Sea Combatting Plastic Pollution Through Science and Art
Mare Plasticum – The Plastic Sea
Marilena Streit-Bianchi • Margarita Cimadevila • Wolfgang Trettnak Editors
Mare Plasticum – The Plastic Sea Combatting Plastic Pollution Through Science and Art
Editors Marilena Streit-Bianchi ARSCIENCIA and CERN Honorary Staff Member Wien, Austria
Margarita Cimadevila ARSCIENCIA Sada, A Coruña, Spain
Wolfgang Trettnak ARSCIENCIA Werndorf, Steiermark, Austria
ISBN 978-3-030-38944-4 ISBN 978-3-030-38945-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38945-1
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Foreword
Plastic is a wonderful material that may save lives in medicine, adds safety to cars or protects food from being wasted. Plastic has revolutionized electronics we rely on every day. At the same time, plastic is the most visible threat to our oceans. But there is more than meets the eye. Microplastics are frighteningly invisible. Yet they have permeated water sources across the planet from the rivers right down to the deepest depths of the oceans and in the Arctic sea ice. Recent studies show that microplastic is also found in drinking water and seafood. The EU is committed to fight plastics in the ocean and has taken several initiatives. Prominent examples include the following: – the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy, promoting new circular business models; – the directive on single-use plastics, reducing the use of single-use plastic items, including fishing gear, that pollute Europe’s beaches and seas; – the new Directive on Port Reception Facilities, providing an incentive to bring ashore all waste f
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