Sunlight Converts Polystyrene to Carbon Dioxide and Dissolved Organic Carbon

Numerous international governmental agencies that steer policy assume that polystyrene persists in the environment for millennia. Here, we show that polystyrene is completely photochemically oxidized to carbon dioxide and partially photochemically oxidized to dissolved organic carbon. Lifetimes of c...

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Veröffentlicht in:Environmental science & technology letters 2019-11, Vol.6 (11), p.669-674
Hauptverfasser: Ward, Collin P, Armstrong, Cassia J, Walsh, Anna N, Jackson, Julia H, Reddy, Christopher M
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Sprache:eng
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