Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, 647 Contees Wharf Rd, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA.
Maritime Studies Program, Williams College-Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic, CT 06355, USA.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2020 Jan;150:110714. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110714. Epub 2019 Nov 18.
As plastic pollution in the environment has increased rapidly in the last half century, so too has the study of the effects of plastic on marine, aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. From this research, a series of new terms has emerged to describe the phenomena unique to the presence of plastic-based materials in nature. In this short note, we bring together disparate neologisms into a single lexicon with the aim to encourage use of a unified vocabulary to describe the new reality of ecological, chemical, and geological systems in the age of plastics.
随着过去半个世纪环境中塑料污染的迅速增加，对塑料对海洋、水生和陆地生态系统影响的研究也在增加。从这项研究中，出现了一系列新术语来描述塑料在自然界中存在的特有现象。在这篇短文中，我们将不同的新词汇汇集到一个词汇表中，目的是鼓励使用统一的词汇来描述塑料时代生态、化学和地质系统的新现实。
