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- The Global Plastics Treaty aims to address and ultimately eliminate plastic pollution globally.
- Legacy plastics will break down into smaller microplastics over many years if no further actions are taken.
- The issue of microplastic fragmentation is a crucial gap that is currently being ignored in global policy discussions.
Article Abstract
The Global Plastics Treaty presents an opportunity to “end plastic pollution”. Legacy plastics will continue to fragment to secondary microplastics for decades, without additional mitigation measures. We identify this flux as a “fragmentation gap”, currently overlooked in global policy targets.
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