Environmental plastics in the context of UV radiation, climate change, and the Montreal Protocol

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Environmental Research Institute, University College, Cork, Ireland.
• ² Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
• ³ Department of Biological Sciences and Environment Program, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
• ⁴ Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kingston University London, Kingston upon Thames, UK.
• ⁵ School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• ⁶ Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
• ⁷ Ptersa Environmental Consultants, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ⁸ Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ⁹ Unidad Académica Sistemas Arrecifales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Puerto Morelos, Mexico.
• ¹⁰ Biospherical Instruments, Inc., San Diego, California, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
• ¹² Friedrich-Alexander University, Möhrendorf, Germany.
• ¹³ Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• ¹⁴ Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹⁵ Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
• ¹⁶ National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
• ¹⁷ Centro Universitario Cabo de Hornos, Universidad de Magallanes, Puerto Williams, Chile.
• ¹⁸ Millenium Institute Biodiversity of Antarctic and Subantarctic Ecosystems BASE, Santiago, Chile.
• ¹⁹ Cape Horn International Center CHIC, Puerto Williams, Chile.
• ²⁰ UV-B Monitoring and Research Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
• ²¹ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA.
• ²² Population Health Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ²³ School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ²⁴ Frazer Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ²⁵ Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
• ²⁶ Indian Academy of Wood Science, Bengaluru, India.
• ²⁷ Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
• ²⁸ Ozone and Water Vapor Division, NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
• ²⁹ Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
• ³⁰ School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
• ³¹ UK National School of Forestry, University of Cumbria, Carlisle, UK.
• ³² Organismal & Evolutionary Ecology, Viikki Plant Science Centre, Faculty of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• ³³ Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA.
• ³⁴ School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
• ³⁵ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Northridge, Northridge, California, USA.
• ³⁶ Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ³⁷ Retired from Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland.
• ³⁸ Center for Sustainable Systems, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• ³⁹ Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• ⁴¹ Exponent Inc., Bowie, Maryland, USA.
• ⁴² King's College London, London, UK.
• ⁴³ ORD/CEMM, US Environmental Protection Agency, Athens, Georgia, USA.
• ⁴⁴ State Key Lab for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, China.