Global Plastic Pollution Observation System to Aid Policy
Global Plastic Pollution Observation System to Aid Policy
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DOI：
10.1021/acs.est.1c00818
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发表时间：
2021-05-24
影响因子：
11.4
通讯作者：
Ok, Yong Sik
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作者：
Bank, Michael S.;Swarzenski, Peter W.;Ok, Yong Sik
塑料污染已成为最紧迫的环境挑战之一，并受到了相应的广泛关注。尽管这是决策者和科学家的首要任务，但指导决策、实施减缓行动和评估其结果所需的知识仍然不足。我们认为，需要建立一个综合的全球塑料污染监测系统，为环境、社会和经济评估提供全面、协调的数据。在这方面，最初对海洋生态系统的关注已扩大到包括大气迁移以及陆地和淡水生态系统。一个地球系统级的塑料观测系统被提议作为一个中心，用于收集和评估塑料污染的规模和影响，包括空气，土地，水和生物群在内的各种颗粒大小和生态系统，并监测改善这一问题的进展。拟议的观测系统力求整合新的信息，并确定污染热点（即，生产设施、城市、道路、港口等）并将监测范围从海洋环境扩大到所有生态系统类型。最终，这样一个系统将提供知识，以支持公共政策和企业对相关联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）的贡献。
Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental challenges and has received commensurate widespread attention. Although it is a top priority for policymakers and scientists alike, the knowledge required to guide decisions, implement mitigation actions, and assess their outcomes remains inadequate. We argue that an integrated, global monitoring system for plastic pollution is needed to provide comprehensive, harmonized data for environmental, societal, and economic assessments. The initial focus on marine ecosystems has been expanded here to include atmospheric transport and terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. An earth-system-level plastic observation system is proposed as a hub for collecting and assessing the scale and impacts of plastic pollution across a wide array of particle sizes and ecosystems including air, land, water, and biota and to monitor progress toward ameliorating this problem. The proposed observation system strives to integrate new information and to identify pollution hotspots (i.e., production facilities, cities, roads, ports, etc.) and expands monitoring from marine environments to encompass all ecosystem types. Eventually, such a system will deliver knowledge to support public policy and corporate contributions to the relevant United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).