Macroplastic pollution in freshwater environments: Focusing public and policy action [PDF]
, 2020 Understanding and managing plastic pollution is an increasingly important environmental priority for policy makers, businesses and scientists. Awareness of the potential damage to the world's oceans has grown but there is less attention given to ...
Anderson, Lucy G. +3 more
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Macroplastic Fragment Contamination of Agricultural Soils Supports a Distinct Microbial Hotspot
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 Agricultural plastics support crop production and quality by reducing weeds, improving irrigation efficiency, and regulating soil conditions, but can also become a soil pollutant.
Olivia McKay +3 more
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Categorization of plastic debris on sixty-six beaches of the Laurentian Great Lakes, North America
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 The Laurentian Great Lakes system is a major global sink for plastic debris. An area of 10 m ^2 on each of sixty-six Great Lakes beaches was sampled for large micro-, meso- and macroplastic items.
Ian A Arturo, Patricia L Corcoran
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Characteristics, distribution patterns and efforts to handle macroplastic waste on the border of the Musi river, Palembang city, Indonesia [PDF]
Glasnik Srpskog Geografskog DruštvaThe research aims to identify the characteristics of waste generation and its composition, map the distribution of macroplastic waste generation and efforts to reduce waste generation through the use of plastic.
Putri Mega Kusuma +3 more
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Life on bottles: Colonisation of macroplastics by freshwater biota
Science of The Total Environment, 2023 While rivers are known to be the main vectors of plastics to the sea, it seems surprising that studies on interactions (e.g. colonisation/entrapment and drift) between macroplastics and biota continue to remain largely neglected, notwithstanding they represent unexpected threats to freshwater biota and riverine habitats.
L. Gallitelli +4 more
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Catchment scale assessment of macroplastic pollution in the Odaw river, Ghana
, 2023 Catchment-scale plastic pollution assessments provide insights in its sources, sinks, and pathways. We present an approach to quantify macroplastic transport and density across the Odaw catchment, Ghana.
Bogerd, Linda (author) +5 more
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Rapid Landscape Changes in Plastic Bays Along the Norwegian Coastline
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The Norwegian Coastal Current transports natural debris and plastic waste along the Norwegian coastline. Deposition occurs in so-called wreck-bays and includes floating debris, such as seaweed, driftwood and volcanic pumice, and increasing amounts of ...
Eivind Bastesen +8 more
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Deep learning for detecting macroplastic litter in water bodies: A review
, 2023 Plastic pollution in water bodies is an unresolved environmental issue that damages all aquatic environments, and causes economic and health problems. Accurate detection of macroplastic litter (plastic items >5 mm) in water is essential to estimate ...
Peereboom, Eric Copius (author) +13 more
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Macroplastics in Lakes: An Underrepresented Ecological Problem?
Water, 2022 Lakes are the greatest reserve of available superficial inland fresh water and concurrently one of the most threatened ecosystems. Among the many pollutants, plastics contaminate lakes worldwide; notwithstanding that, little is known on the impacts of macroplastics.
Alessandra Cera +2 more
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Sample size requirements for riverbank macrolitter characterization
Frontiers in Water, 2023 Anthropogenic litter is omnipresent in terrestrial and freshwater systems, and can have major economic and ecological impacts. Monitoring and modeling of anthropogenic litter comes with large uncertainties due to the wide variety of litter ...
Sjoukje I. de Lange +14 more
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