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Wind- and rain-driven macroplastic mobilization and transport on land [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Wind and rain are considered main drivers for mobilization and transport of macroplastics on land, yet there is a lack of empirical data that quantifies this. We present lab experiment results on land-based macroplastic mobilization and transport.
Yvette A. M. Mellink, Tim H. M. van Emmerik, Thomas Mani   +2 more
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Estimating floating macroplastic flux in the Santa Ana River, California

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2022
Study region: The Santa Ana River middle reach, a small coastal urban catchment in Southern California, USA experiences a Mediterranean climate and lowflows dominated by wastewater effluent.
Win Cowger, Andrew Gray, Stanley Brownlee, Hannah Hapich, Ashok Deshpande, Kryss Waldschläger   +5 more
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Quantifying Floating Plastic Debris at Sea Using Vessel-Based Optical Data and Artificial Intelligence

Remote Sensing, 2021
Despite recent advances in remote sensing of large accumulations of floating plastic debris, mainly in coastal regions, the quantification of individual macroplastic objects (>50 cm) remains challenging.
Robin de Vries, Matthias Egger, Thomas Mani, Laurent Lebreton   +3 more
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Eating Near the Dump: Identification of Nearby Plastic Hotspot as a Proxy for Potential Microplastic Contamination in the Norwegian Lobster (Nephrops norvegicus)

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Plastic waste dumped in the marine environment has severe ecological, social and economic impacts. In recent years, a series of scientific studies documented the contamination by macroplastic and its impact on marine organisms through the accidental ...
Simone Franceschini, Simone Franceschini, Alessandro Cau, Alessandro Cau, Lorenzo D’Andrea, Lorenzo D’Andrea, Maria Cristina Follesa, Maria Cristina Follesa, Tommaso Russo, Tommaso Russo   +9 more
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Revealing the risk of macroplastic ingestion to marine wildlife. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Savoca MS.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Roadmap for long-term macroplastic monitoring in rivers [PDF]

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
<p>Macroplastic pollution in and around rivers negatively impacts human livelihood, and aquatic ecosystems. Monitoring data are crucial for better understanding and quantifying this problem, and for the design of effective intervention strategies.
Tim van Emmerik, Paul Vriend, Paul Vriend, Eric Copius Peereboom   +3 more
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Riverine macroplastic gradient along watercourses: A global overview

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Nowadays, plastics represent growing concern in aquatic habitats, harming more and more both ecosystem and human health. Since rivers are the main carriers of plastics to the sea, some studies were conducted on the transport of overall small plastics ...
Luca Gallitelli, Massimiliano Scalici
doaj   +1 more source

Seasonality of riverine macroplastic transport [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2019
AbstractMarine plastic pollution is an increasing environmental threat. Although it is assumed that most marine plastics are transported from land to the ocean through rivers, only limited data on riverine plastic transport exists. Recently, new methods have been introduced to characterize riverine plastics consistently through time and space.
van Emmerik, Tim, Strady, Emilie, Kieu-Le, Thuy-Chung, Nguyen, Luan, Gratiot, Nicolas   +4 more
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Roadside ditch macroplastic and other litter dataset in the Finger lakes region across land uses and COVID-19 pandemic

Data in Brief, 2021
Litter was collected from 12 roadside ditches in the Finger lakes Region of New York State over two sampling periods: pre-COVID-19 pandemic and during COVID-19 pandemic.
Olivia Pietz, Mary Augenstein, Christine B. Georgakakos, Kanishka Singh, Miles McDonald, M. Todd Walter   +5 more
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The unknown fate of macroplastic in mountain rivers

Science of The Total Environment, 2022
Mountain rivers are typically seen as relatively pristine ecosystems, supporting numerous goods (e.g., water resources) for human populations living not only in the mountain regions but also downstream from them. Recent evidence suggests, however, that mountain river valleys in populated areas can be substantially polluted by macroplastic (plastic item
Liro, Maciej, van Emmerik, Tim H.M, Zielonka, Anna, Gallitelli, Luca, Mihai, Florin-Constantin   +4 more
openaire   +5 more sources