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Plastic Pirates sample litter at rivers in Germany – Riverside litter and litter sources estimated by schoolchildren

Environmental Pollution, 2019
Rivers are an important source of marine anthropogenic litter, but the particular origins of riverine litter itself have not been well established. Here we used a citizen science approach where schoolchildren examined litter at riversides and identified ...
Tim Kiessling   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The impact of tourism on marine litter pollution on Santa Marta beaches, Colombian Caribbean.

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2020
Tourism is an important socioeconomic activity in coastal communities, which deteriorates marine-coastal ecosystem quality when poorly managed, increasing litter pollution on beaches during the main tourist seasons.
Ostin Garcés-Ordóñez   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effects of soil macro- and mesofauna on litter decomposition and soil organic matter stabilization

Geoderma, 2017
Soil fauna consumes substantial amounts of litter and can even consume the entire annual litterfall in some ecosystems. The assimilation efficiency of fauna may reach 50% but is usually much smaller.
J. Frouz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Marine litter and microplastic pollution on mangrove soils of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombian Caribbean.

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2019
Marine litter pollution has become a complex global problem, because of the negative ecological and socioeconomic impacts as well as the human health risks that it represents.
Ostin Garcés-Ordóñez   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Litterers”

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2012
How do people get constructed as “litterers” through objects of litter on the ground? Middle- and working-class white and black homeowners of the suburb under ethnographic study believe that litter is a significant problem in their community. Despite rarely seeing anyone actually litter, they develop folk theories that blame this problem on black ...
openaire   +1 more source

Litter Reduction

Environment and Behavior, 1986
The effectiveness of the New York State Bottle Bill was examined. A multiple-time series design was used in which seven observations of the number of returnable and nonreturnable bottles and cans were taken on a highway exit and railroad tracks in New York and New Jersey every 2 weeks prior to and after the implementation of the New York State Bottle ...
Lynn Levitt, Gloria Leventhal
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An inshore–offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter

Nature Sustainability, 2021
C. Morales-Caselles   +25 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Litter Fall and Litter Breakdown in Miombo

1975
The area of Africa where woodland is dominant covers 12.1 percent, or 3.8 × 106 km2, of the land area (Malaisse et al., 1972). The main part of this area corresponds closely to the Zambezian Domain (White, 1965). In the vicinity of Lubumbashi miombo woodland comprises over 90 percent of the country; Brachystegia spp. and Julbemardia paniculata (Benth.)
F. Malaisse   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Marine litter on the beaches of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas: An assessment of their abundance, composition and sources.

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018
The abundance, composition and sources of marine litter were determined on beaches located in the seven countries of the Adriatic-Ionian macroregion, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Montenegro and Slovenia.
T. Vlachogianni   +19 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Littering Reduction

Social Marketing Quarterly, 2017
Littering continues to be a problem worldwide. The purpose of this article is to update earlier systematic reviews on littering and using a scorecard of seven social marketing components, assess the extent of social marketing use in identified littering programs.
Almosa, Yara   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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