Policy: Classify plastic waste as hazardous

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2013-02-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/494169aPMID 23407523
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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