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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 535 © 2021 The Authors This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits… Click to show full abstract
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 535 © 2021 The Authors This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. Derived from petrochemicals, 1 plastics are composed of monomers that are sequenced into polymer chains. Since their commercial development in the 1930s and 1940s, the modern world has become hugely reliant on plastics. They have extensively replaced wood, metal, ceramics and glass in manufacture and construction. They are embedded in the economic system and our daily lives. There are many different types of plastic with different potentials to be reused or recycled (Box 1).2
Journal Title: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Year Published: 2021
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