Plastics on the rocks: the invisible but harmful footprint of shoe soles

IF 2 4区地球科学 Q3 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Comptes Rendus Geoscience Pub Date : 2023-02-07 DOI:10.5802/crgeos.199

Philippe Cecchi

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Abstract

Outdoor recreational activities for leisure and for sport training have grown in popularity. Their environmental impacts remain little studied, especially the waste generated by over-frequentation. Our objective was to document how frequentation of a short mountain hiking trail can lead to significant quantities of waste. To this aim, all small objects found along a three-kilometer trail were collected and their origin determined. Polymers were predominant, and were mostly shoe sole fragments. This has never been documented and must be publicized due to the potential harmfulness to terrestrial and riparian ecosystems, and to increase the walkers’ awareness.

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岩石上的塑料:看不见但有害的鞋底足迹

以休闲和运动训练为目的的户外娱乐活动越来越受欢迎。对其环境影响的研究仍然很少，特别是过度频繁产生的废物。我们的目标是记录一条短的山地徒步路线是如何导致大量的浪费的。为此，在一条3公里长的小路上发现的所有小物体都被收集起来，并确定了它们的来源。聚合物是主要的，并且大多数是鞋底碎片。这从未被记录在案，由于对陆地和河岸生态系统的潜在危害，必须公开，并提高步行者的意识。

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Comptes Rendus Geoscience 地学-地球科学综合

CiteScore

2.80

自引率

14.30%

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审稿时长

5.9 weeks

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