Report Reveals Plastics’ Climate Impacts - RECYCLING Magazine

Report reveals plastics’ climate impacts - RECYCLING magazine

Synthesizing the latest peer-reviewed scientific research, the report systematically maps out three pathways through which plastics affect the climate. Plastics emit greenhouse gases throughout their lifecycle, disrupt key ecosystem processes essential to sequestering carbon, and affect how the Earth reflects and absorbs energy. Key findings about the state of scientific knowledge on the plastics-climate nexus include the following: Greenhouse …

By Dr. Spyros Kitsinelis, chemist PLASTIC (synthetic polymer) materials, although often considered the main culprits for environmental pollution, have also offered advantages that have contributed significantly… Plastics and the environment: A contradiction - ΙΝΑΦΤΕΜΟΡΙΚΙ