Invisible pollutionemerging marine pollutants

  1. Belen Gonzalez-Gaya
Revista:
Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review

ISSN: 2174-3487,  2174-9221

Año de publicación: 2021

Título del ejemplar: Science's structure

Número: 11

Páginas: 182-191

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.7203/METODE.11.16976 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review

Resumen

Since the start of the Anthropocene, the planet has been threatened by a number of risks associated with human activity. Among them, chemical pollution is posing conceptual and technical challenges that are particularly difficult to characterise on a global scale. We must ask ourselves, what is a pollutant? What properties are relevant in their definition? Studies on the abundance, persistence, mobility in the environment, and bioaccumulation potential of the chemical compounds we use every day are changing the paradigm of what we consider pollutants. Thus, compounds that do not cause acute toxicity can still be dangerous for the ecosystem when they continually reach the environment, exist in very high concentrations, or disperse easily. Thus, raising awareness about the forgotten pollution that we unknowingly generate but which is affecting our oceans will be essential to protect the planet.

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