Heidbreder et al., accepted manuscript, to appear in ‘Science of the Total Environment’, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.437 © 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 1 Tackling the plastic problem: A review on perceptions, 1 behaviors, and interventions 2 3 Lea Marie Heidbreder a,b* , Isabella Bablok a* , Stefan Drews c,d , Claudia Menzel c‡ 4 5 a Interdisciplinary Research Group for Environmental Studies, University of Koblenz-Landau, 6 Germany 7 b Personality, Psychological Assessment, and Psychological Methods, Department of 8 Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany 9 c Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of 10 Koblenz-Landau, Germany 11 d Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 12 Spain 13 14 * these authors contributed equally to this work 15 ‡ corresponding author: Claudia Menzel, [email protected], Social, Environmental, and 16 Economic Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstraße 17 7, 76289 Landau, Germany 18 19 20 21