Han Geuk Seo

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The mass production and wide use of plastic products bring great convenience to people, but also pose a risk to the environment and public health. It has been reported that the annual global production of plastics has exceeded 320 million tons and it continued to grow, of which only a small percent of them was recycled, with majority of plastic waste ending up in the environment in a variety of ways (Alimi et al., 2018; Wright et al., 2017).