Plastic marine pollution in the Arctic today illustrates the global distribution of plastic waste of all sizes traveling by wind and waves, entering food chains, and presenting challenges to management and mitigation. While currents move plastics from lower latitudes into the Arctic, significant waste is also generated by remote communities, as well as maritime activities, such as shipping, fishing and tourism, which are increasing their activities as seasonal sea ice diminishes. Mitigation strategies may include monitoring programs of plastic waste abundance and distribution, improved waste management in Arctic communities, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) to reverse the transport of waste plastics and packaging from remote communities, incentivized gear recovery of abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), gear tagging and tracking, and restricting tourism and employing "leave no trace" policies. Here we report how these mitigation strategies are employed in the Arctic to minimize plastic waste impacts, and move Arctic communities toward better materials management and circular economic practices. The evidence of harm from waste plastics exacerbated by the ubiquity of plastic marine pollution in all biomes, and the rapid reporting of ecological and social costs, together suggest that we know enough to act quickly to manage and mitigate plastics from all sources to the Arctic.

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缓解极地地区塑料增长趋势的缓解策略。

今天，北极的海洋塑料污染说明了各种规模的塑料废物在全球的分布，这些废物通过风浪传播，进入食物链，并给管理和缓解带来挑战。当潮流将塑料从低纬度地区转移到北极时，偏远社区以及海上活动（例如航运，渔业和旅游业）也产生了大量废物，随着季节性海冰减少，这些活动也在增加。缓解战略可包括监测塑料废物的数量和分布的计划，改善北极社区的废物管理，扩大生产者责任（EPR），以逆向偏远社区的废塑料和包装的运输，激励性地回收废弃，丢失和丢弃的渔具（ALDFG），进行齿轮标记和跟踪，并限制旅游业并采用“不留痕迹”政策。在这里，我们报告了北极地区如何运用这些缓解策略来最大程度地减少塑料废物的影响，并使北极社区朝着更好的材料管理和循环经济实践的方向发展。所有生物群落中普遍存在海洋塑料污染以及迅速报告的生态和社会成本，加剧了废塑料造成的危害的证据表明，我们知道足够迅速采取行动，以管理和减轻所有来源到北极的塑料。并推动北极社区朝着更好的材料管理和循环经济惯例迈进。所有生物群落中普遍存在海洋塑料污染以及迅速报告的生态和社会成本，加剧了废塑料造成的危害的证据表明，我们知道足够迅速采取行动，以管理和减轻所有来源到北极的塑料。并推动北极社区朝着更好的材料管理和循环经济惯例迈进。所有生物群落中普遍存在海洋塑料污染以及迅速报告的生态和社会成本，加剧了废塑料造成的危害的证据表明，我们知道足够迅速采取行动，以管理和减轻所有来源到北极的塑料。