Lancet magazine editors have published the launch of unified research centers of the International Corporation in the United States, Europe and Australia to observe the pollution of planet plastic at global levels.
These measurements will help participants in the international agreement on plastic pollution (GPPT) more accurately to recognize the size of the problem, the article is published on Lancet.
The previous Lancet project, in order to assess the impact of climate change on human health, encouraged the international community to introduce medical aspects of global warming on climate negotiation programs at the COP28 meeting in Dubai. Journalism service of the magazine.
Each year, the world industry produces about 400 million tons of plastic, most of which fall into the landfills, where this garbage is not decomposed and still almost no affected for tens or even hundreds. According to the current estimates of ecologicalists, in the ocean world, as well as on the mainland and other lands on Earth, about 8 billion tons of plastic, accounting for about 80% of the total production volume in the entire civilized history.
To combat this pollution, in the spring of 2022, a process to develop the GPPT document was given as part of the United Nations. Its participants plans to develop an international measure and legal obligations that will limit the pollution of plastics and will slow down the accumulation of garbage in the oceans and in different areas of the soil.
Scientists have launched an international corporation with the support of Lancet magazine, aiming to comprehensively research on how to accumulate plastic waste in nature affects human health and the condition of the ecosystem. Within its framework, scientists plan to monitor how to appear large plastic clusters in water, soil and other environments that affect the concentration of dangerous polymer decomposition products, as well as plastic nanoparticles and micro -micro -documents that can penetrate the human body.
This information, as the scientists hope, will allow the international community to monitor the effectiveness of the GPPT agreement, negotiations on the final expression that will start in Switzerland Geneva this week. Scientists also plan to monitor how to implement the GPPT will affect important environmental indicators directly related to human health. This will take additional measures to reduce the harmful effects of plastic for public health, if necessary, have summarized the project participants.
