The United States requires effective federal policy to reduce marine plastic pollution

Abstract The amount of plastic entering the ocean is expected to increase by an order of magnitude by 2025. Marine plastic pollution threatens biodiversity through entanglement, ingestion, and chemical exposure. The United States is in the top 20 of 192 coastal countries with mismanaged waste enteri...

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Published in:Conservation Science and Practice
Main Author: Autumn R. Iverson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-06-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.45