Toshniwal P

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 2021-2024
2024
Impacts associated with the plastic polymers polycarbonate, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, and polybutadiene across their life cycle: A review.
Heliyon ·doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32912

Polymers are the main building blocks of plastic, with the annual global production volume of fossil carbon-based polymers reaching over 457 million metric tons in 2019 and this figure is anticipated to triple by 2060. There is potential fo…

2021
Buy-now-pay-later: Hazards to human and planetary health from plastics production, use and waste.
Journal of paediatrics and child health ·doi:10.1111/jpc.15777

More than 8 billion tonnes of plastic were produced between 1950 and 2015, that is 1 tonne for every man, woman and child on our planet. Global plastic production has been growing exponentially with an annual growth rate of 8.4% since 1950,…