Symeonides C

No ORCID on file · 3 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…

2023
The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health.
Annals of global health ·doi:10.5334/aogh.4056

BackgroundPlastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine, electronics, aerospace, construction, food packaging, and sports. I…

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,…