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Plastic pollution and water hyacinths consistently co-occur in the lower Saigon river

Environmental Research: Water
Plastic pollution is an emerging entity threatening freshwater and marine ecosystems. Rivers play an important role in the transport and retention of plastic between land and sea.
Tim H M van Emmerik, Tim W Janssen, Tianlong Jia, Thanh-Khiet L Bui, Riccardo Taormina, Hong-Q Nguyen, Louise J Schreyers   +6 more
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Plastic Pollution in Paradise: Analyzing Plastic Litter on Malta’s Beaches and Assessing the Release of Potentially Toxic Elements

Toxics
This study investigates plastic litter on two beaches in Malta, Golden Bay and Rivera Beach, with a focus on plastic abundance, characteristics, sources, and the influence of human activity on pollution levels.
Piotr Jachimowicz, Barbara Klik, Adriana Dorota Osińska   +2 more
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The Circularity Assessment Protocol in Cities to Reduce Plastic Pollution

Community Science
The circular economy has been promoted as a solution to plastic pollution, but cities and communities bear the brunt of plastic pollution. The Circularity Assessment Protocol (CAP) is a systems method of collaborative and open data collection for ...
J. R. Jambeck, T. Maddalene, K. Youngblood, A. Oposa, H. Perello, M. Werner, I. Himelboim, K. Romness, J. Mathis, C. Keisling, A. L. Brooks   +10 more
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Quantifying the physical impacts of macroplastic ingestion

Quantifying the physical impacts of macroplastic ...
Marhoon, Ahmed, Alnes Høiberg, Marthe, Murphy, Erin, Borgelt, Jan, Dorber, Martin, Verones, Francesca   +5 more
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Does macroplastic really concern the fisherman? - An insight into the Norwegian fishing industry's macroplastic management today and in the future

How does macroplastics actually concern the fisherman? That is the question that this qualitative research of the fishing industry along the Norwegian coast aims to answer by interviewing Norwegian fishermen as well as observing their methods for macroplastic pollution mitigation.
Åshild, Keshavarzy, Cyvin, Jakob Bonnevie   +1 more
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Impact of plastic film mulching on microplastic in farmland soils in Guangdong province, China. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Long B, Li F, Wang K, Huang Y, Yang Y, Xie D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Impacts of Stormwater and Land Cover on the Abundance, Transport, and Composition of Anthropogenic Litter in Urban Watersheds [PDF]

Anthropogenic litter (AL; trash) is defined as any manufactured item that ends up in the environment. AL consists of many different materials including glass, metal, and plastic, the latter of which typically represents a dominant constituent and has ...
Schwenk, Bailey Austin
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A quantitative risk assessment framework for mortality due to macroplastic ingestion in seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Murphy EL, Baechler BR, Roman L, Leonard GH, Mallos NJ, Santos RG, Rochman CM.   +6 more
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Flood Characteristics Drive River-Scale Macroplastic Deposition. [PDF]

Environ Sci Technol
Schreyers LJ, Hauk R, Wallerstein N, Teuling AJ, Uijlenhoet R, van der Ploeg M, van Emmerik THM.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Occurrence and distribution of meso- and macroplastics in the water, sediment, and fauna of the Nile River, Egypt. [PDF]

Environ Monit Assess, 2023
Hassan YAM, Badrey AEA, Osman AGM, Mahdy A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source