environmental pollution

The month-long campaign calls on people to tackle the environmental pollution caused by the fashion industry by buying previously used items.

The findings are very clear: 17,463 of the evaluated studies address the negative impacts of plastics and associated chemicals on environmental pollution, only 1,279 consider the impacts on climate change and a scant 652 focus on the impacts on biodiversity.

The United Nations have introduced the term "triple planetary crisis" to describe the interlinked global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution.

However, while the contribution of plastics on environmental pollution appears to be well researched, biodiversity and climate change have received comparatively little attention.

A comprehensive knowledge base is available for environmental pollution, particularly concerning the plastics life cycle.