Plastic pollution

Quality:

Plastic pollution - contamination of the natural environment with plastic products. Article “Plastic pollution” in English Wikipedia has 96.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 361 references and 38 sections.

This article has the best quality in Dutch Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Plastic pollution” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Plastic pollution”, its content was written by 440 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 955 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1156 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2573 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #751 in May 2019
• Global: #1618 in February 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5194 in November 2019
• Global: #9175 in November 2019

There are 33 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Dutch (nl) Plasticvervuiling		100
2	English (en) Plastic pollution		96.1795
3	Portuguese (pt) Poluição por plástico		95.278
4	Japanese (ja) プラスチック汚染		94.2268
5	Vietnamese (vi) Ô nhiễm nhựa		86.4326
6	Chinese (zh) 塑料污染		62.1664
7	German (de) Umweltverschmutzung durch Plastik		60.1479
8	Turkish (tr) Plastik kirliliği		56.4875
9	Norwegian (no) Plastforurensing		56.1758
10	Serbian (sr) Загађење пластиком		55.1977

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plastic pollution		4 461 454
2	Spanish (es) Contaminación por plástico		498 286
3	Russian (ru) Пластиковое загрязнение		373 625
4	Hindi (hi) प्लास्टिक प्रदूषण		331 927
5	Italian (it) Inquinamento causato dalla plastica		319 896
6	Chinese (zh) 塑料污染		246 227
7	French (fr) Pollution par le plastique		180 213
8	Korean (ko) 플라스틱 오염		89 337
9	Arabic (ar) تلوث لدائني		86 717
10	Indonesian (id) Polusi plastik		52 226

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plastic pollution		18 030
2	Russian (ru) Пластиковое загрязнение		1 642
3	Spanish (es) Contaminación por plástico		931
4	Hindi (hi) प्लास्टिक प्रदूषण		791
5	Portuguese (pt) Poluição por plástico		790
6	Korean (ko) 플라스틱 오염		608
7	Chinese (zh) 塑料污染		551
8	French (fr) Pollution par le plastique		530
9	Simple English (simple) Plastic pollution		362
10	German (de) Umweltverschmutzung durch Plastik		326

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plastic pollution		440
2	Italian (it) Inquinamento causato dalla plastica		75
3	French (fr) Pollution par le plastique		64
4	Spanish (es) Contaminación por plástico		41
5	German (de) Umweltverschmutzung durch Plastik		38
6	Russian (ru) Пластиковое загрязнение		32
7	Japanese (ja) プラスチック汚染		22
8	Hindi (hi) प्लास्टिक प्रदूषण		20
9	Chinese (zh) 塑料污染		20
10	Arabic (ar) تلوث لدائني		18

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plastic pollution		3
2	French (fr) Pollution par le plastique		3
3	Japanese (ja) プラスチック汚染		2
4	Dutch (nl) Plasticvervuiling		1
5	Arabic (ar) تلوث لدائني		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Plastik çirklənmə		0
7	Catalan (ca) Contaminació per plàstics		0
8	Czech (cs) Znečištění plasty		0
9	Danish (da) Plastforurening		0
10	German (de) Umweltverschmutzung durch Plastik		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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