Karin Kvale

Nov 13, 2024 | nature.com | Karin Kvale |Matthias Egger

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.

Nov 9, 2023 | wasterecyclingmag.ca | Karin Kvale |Andrew Weaver |Natalia Gurgacz

The dual pressures of climate change and plastic pollution are frequently conflated in the media, in peer-reviewed research and other environmental reporting. This is understandable. Plastics are largely derived from fossil fuels and the burning of fossil fuels is the major driver of human-caused climate change.

Oct 22, 2023 | phys.org | Karin Kvale |Andrew Weaver |Natalia Gurgacz

The dual pressures of climate change and plastic pollution are frequently conflated in the media, in peer-reviewed research and other environmental reporting. This is understandable.

Oct 19, 2023 | theconversation.com | Karin Kvale |Andrew Weaver |Natalia Gurgacz

The dual pressures of climate change and plastic pollution are frequently conflated in the media, in peer-reviewed research and other environmental reporting. This is understandable. Plastics are largely derived from fossil fuels and the burning of fossil fuels is the major driver of human-caused climate change.