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Degradation Rates of Plastics in the Environment

Ali Chamas, H. Moon, Jiajia Zheng, Yang Qiu, Tarnuma Tabassum, J. Jang, M. Abu‐Omar, S. Scott, S. Suh

2020.2.3ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b06635

Abstract

Plastic waste is currently generated at a rate approaching 400 Mt year–1. The amount of plastics accumulating in the environment is growing rapidly, yet our understanding of its persistence is very...

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CHAMAS, Ali, et al. Degradation rates of plastics in the environment. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2020, 8: 3494–3511.