PLASTIC POLLUTION: CAUSES, EFFECTS AND PREVENTIONS

Marine birds and plastic pollution

The intrinsic properties and widespread presence of plastic particles in the marine environment have profound effects on birds inhabiting the world's oceans. Industrial and user-plastics composed of polystyrene, polypropylene, polyethylene, styrofoam, and polyvinyl chloride are the most prevalent forms of plastic marine pollution. Their dispersal and accumulation, in average densities of 1000 t...

Editorial: Plastic Pollution

Air pollution and causes of death.

This paper describes a study of the relationship between indices of air pollution and respiratory and other causes of death in the large towns of England and Wales.* Although there are now well over a thousand instruments measuring air pollution in one way or another in England and Wales, grave difficulties are involved in using their results to measure the average exposure to pollution experie...

Air Pollution: Causes, Sources and Abatement

Air Pollution: Causes, Sources and Abatement