Abstract
Since the second half of the 20th century, we have entered the “plastic age”, a new era where plastics represent the majority of man-made materials. In a few decades, 8,300 million metric tons of plastics have been produced, and the subsequent plastic wastes have been accumulating in marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats, following their own biogeochemical cycle. At the current rate of production, it is predicted that more than 10,000 million metric tons of mismanaged plastic wastes will be dispersed in the natural environment by 2050.
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