Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology

Melanie Bergmann; Hans Peter H. Arp; Bethanie Carney Almroth; Win Cowger; Marcus Eriksen; Tridibesh Dey; Sedat Gündoğdu; Rebecca R. Helm; Anja Krieger; Kristian Syberg; Mine B. Tekman; Richard C. Thompson; Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez; Anish Kumar Warrier; Trisia Farrelly

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.022

Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology

Melanie Bergmann^*
, Hans Peter H. Arp
, Bethanie Carney Almroth
, Win Cowger
, Marcus Eriksen
, Tridibesh Dey
, Sedat Gündoğdu
, Rebecca R. Helm
, Anja Krieger
, Kristian Syberg
, Mine B. Tekman
, Richard C. Thompson
, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez
, Anish Kumar Warrier
, Trisia Farrelly

^*Corresponding author for this work

Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
University of Gothenburg
Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research
5 Gyres Institute
Aarhus University
Cukurova University
Georgetown University
Roskilde University
Ozyegin University
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Massey University

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Plastic removal technologies can temporarily mitigate plastic accumulation at local scales, but evidence-based criteria are needed in policies to ensure that they are feasible and that ecological benefits outweigh the costs. To reduce plastic pollution efficiently and economically, policy should prioritize regulating and reducing upstream production rather than downstream pollution cleanup.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1439-1442
Number of pages	4
Journal	One Earth
Volume	6
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.022
Publication status	Published - 17 Nov 2023

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Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)

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Bergmann, M., Arp, H. P. H., Carney Almroth, B., Cowger, W., Eriksen, M., Dey, T., Gündoğdu, S., Helm, R. R., Krieger, A., Syberg, K., Tekman, M. B., Thompson, R. C., Villarrubia-Gómez, P., Warrier, A. K., & Farrelly, T. (2023). Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology. One Earth, 6(11), 1439-1442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.022

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