Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

Author:

Borrelle Stephanie B.123ORCID,Ringma Jeremy456ORCID,Law Kara Lavender7ORCID,Monnahan Cole C.8ORCID,Lebreton Laurent910,McGivern Alexis11ORCID,Murphy Erin1213ORCID,Jambeck Jenna2ORCID,Leonard George H.14ORCID,Hilleary Michelle A.15ORCID,Eriksen Marcus16ORCID,Possingham Hugh P.1718,De Frond Hannah1ORCID,Gerber Leah R.1213ORCID,Polidoro Beth1319ORCID,Tahir Akbar2021,Bernard Miranda1213ORCID,Mallos Nicholas14ORCID,Barnes Megan622ORCID,Rochman Chelsea M.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

2. College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

3. David H. Smith Conservation Research Program, Society for Conservation Biology, Washington, DC, USA.

4. School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.

5. Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia.

6. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, NREM, Honolulu, HI, USA.

7. Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, USA.

8. Status of Stocks and Multispecies Assessments Program, Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, USA.

9. The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

10. The Modelling House, Raglan, New Zealand.

11. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

12. Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

13. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

14. Ocean Conservancy, Washington, DC, USA.

15. Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Alexandria, VA, USA.

16. 5 Gyres Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

17. School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

18. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, USA.

19. School Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University, Glendale, AZ, USA.

20. Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Marine and Fisheries Sciences, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia.

21. Research Center for Natural Heritage, Biodiversity and Climate Change, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia.

22. Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.

Abstract

A mess of plastic It is not clear what strategies will be most effective in mitigating harm from the global problem of plastic pollution. Borrelle et al. and Lau et al. discuss possible solutions and their impacts. Both groups found that substantial reductions in plastic-waste generation can be made in the coming decades with immediate, concerted, and vigorous action, but even in the best case scenario, huge quantities of plastic will still accumulate in the environment. Science , this issue p. 1515 , p. 1455

Funder

National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center

Smith Conservation Research Fellowship

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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