Arockia Ferdin
f3rd1n.bsky.social
Arockia Ferdin
@f3rd1n.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher 🐘
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Conservation Social Science 🐾| Plastic Waste Management 🗑️| Zero waste Lifestyle 🚯. #Conservation #Plastic #Coexistence
New publication alert! 📖 Our research in #Chitwan National Park, #Nepal reveals community preferences that could enhance their adaptive capacity to coexist with #wildlife.

@springernature.com @springer.springernature.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
#Taiwanese use 700 #Plastic bags per person yearly 😱! Our #Research reveals what consumers REALLY want for a plastic-free future vs reality 🚮♻️🗑️

#beatplasticpollution #plasticwaste #CircularEconomy #singleuseplastic

Learn more: rdcu.be/eik4v

@springernature.com @springer.springernature.com
June 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
World Environment Day 2025: Beat Plastic Pollution 🌊

Today’s theme resonates deeply with marine #conservation🦑. Did you know that discarded fishing equipment poses a deadly threat to #marine mammals? which kills approximately 300,000 whales🐋 each year🎣.
June 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
📚 Excited to share our recent book chapter titled: "Community-Based Plastic Waste Management Initiatives: A Key to Combating Plastic Pollution," published in "Combating Plastic Pollution in Terrestrial Environment." @springernature.com

Link🔗: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Community-Based Plastic Waste Management Initiatives: A Key to Combating Plastic Pollution
The advent of plastic in the Anthropocene is transforming our blue planet into a ‘plastic planet.’ While key technologies exist to reduce, recycle, and repurpose plastic waste, it remains ...
link.springer.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#Plastic producers have pushed “advanced recycling” as a salve to the #plasticwaste crisis despite knowing for years that it is not a technically or economically feasible solution ♻️.

Read it here 👇🏻:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#BeatPlasticPollution #CircularEconomy
Plastics industry pushed ‘advanced recycling’ despite knowing problems – report
Producers promoted chemical recycling – processes used to break plastics into constituent molecules – but knew of limitations
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Ever wondered about the story behind the paper?

Our #research dives into leveraging public preferences to tackle plastic waste mismanagement in Kuala Lumpur, #Malaysia. Read the journey here: go.nature.com/42P6ozu

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#BeatPlasticPollution #PlasticWaste
Leveraging public preferences to improve plastic waste management in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This research investigates what approaches respondents prefer for improving plastic waste management in the city and identifies which demographic groups are more inclined to participate in these initi...
go.nature.com
April 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Read our latest #research on #CircularEconomy, published with @springernature.com @springer1842.bsky.social in Circular Economy and Sustainability. Read here: rdcu.be/eik4v

#BeatPlasticPollution #SingleUsePlastics #PlasticPollution
April 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📢 Thrilled to share that our collaborative research paper, "Breeding success of long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus) and its drivers in Deccan Plateau, India," has been published in the European Journal of Wildlife Research!

#LongBilledVulture #NestingEcology #Conservation
#Vultures 🦅
March 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM