Climate-Induced Pandemics in the Plastisphere

Abstract

With the increasing manufacture of plastics and its resultant plastic waste generation, disease outbreaks are likely to occur through the interactive effects of climatic hazards and (transformed) plastic-induced antibiotic resistance. However, no information is available regarding the climatic hazards linked to antibiotic-resistant pandemics in the plastisphere. This comment article offers a new forum for commenting on issues that have not been addressed. Several approaches with remedial and mitigation strategies are suggested in four primary areas (i.e., manufacture of plastics, education, risk assessment, research in public health and medicine).