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RESEARCH FRONT

Foreword to the research front on ‘Plastics in the Environment’

Jason M. Unrine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3012-5261 A C and Thilo Hofmann https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8929-6933 B
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A Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA.

B Department of Environmental Geosciences, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria.

C Corresponding author. Email: jason.unrine@uky.edu

Environmental Chemistry 18(3) 91-92 https://doi.org/10.1071/ENv18n3_FO
Published: 3 September 2021


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