COVID-19对沿海和海洋环境的影响:严重的微塑料污染,改善的空气质量和未来的前景

Yixuan Han1, Xiang Gu2, Chunye Lin3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.

Chemosphere
|April 5, 2024
PubMed
概括

尽管通过锁定改善了空气质量,但COVID-19大流行使塑料和个人防护设备 (PPE) 废物造成的新出现的污染物造成的沿海污染情况恶化. 提出了海洋监测和废物监管的战略.

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