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Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for pollution

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Topics

Chemical pollution, Environmental Data, Health, Microplastics, Plastic Policy, Plastic Pollution, Plastic Production, Pollutants, Toxic Chemicals

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Activists, Health Professionals, NGO Professionals, Policy Makers, Researchers, Scientists, Students, Teachers

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Peer-reviewed research

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Scientists find that increasing production and emissions of manmade chemical pollution (Novel Entities), including plastics, outstrips capacities for assessment and monitoring resulting in transgression of their planetary boundary. This transgression has the potential to cause severe ecosystem and human health problems at different scales, and alter Earth system processes on which human and all other life depend.

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