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Coastal clean-up in Southeast Asia: lessons learned, challenges, and future strategies
The significant accumulation of marine debris on beaches poses a challenge and raises serious concerns to the global environmental sustainability. It has been previously reported that Southeast Asian (SEA) is one of the global hotspots of marine debris ...
Noir P. Purba +6 more
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Distribution of macro plastic debris in Muaragembong coastal bay during the east moonson and the east to west monsoon transition in 2020 [PDF]
Marine debris pollution can threaten the sustainability of natural resources in coastal regions ecosystem. Marine debris is worldwide issue now and Indonesia considered as a second biggest polluter of plastic to the world ocean. Massive efforts have been
Suryono Devi Dwiyanti +11 more
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Characteristics and patterns of marine debris in the Chinese beach-sea continuum
The amounts of marine debris and plastic pollution have been growing dramatically in the environment. Floating marine debris can be transported between the sea and coastal zone by various processes. However, it remains unknown if marine debris in the sea
Xiaoguang Ouyang +3 more
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Invasive zebra and quagga mussels (Dreissena spp.) in the Great Lakes of North America are biomonitors for chemical contaminants, but are also exposed to microplastics (<5 mm).
Timothy Hoellein +6 more
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Large-area automatic detection of shoreline stranded marine debris using deep learning
Marine debris is a global crisis impacting human health, wildlife, and coastal economies. Remote sensing and geospatial technologies are an efficient way to document marine debris across large areas, but the high costs of fieldwork and manual ...
W. Ross Winans +3 more
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Highlight Research: • The potential calorific value of marine debris obtained from calculating the total waste is 12.05 MJ/kg, which still falls within the incinerator application's standard criteria.
I Wayan Koko Suryawan +3 more
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Marine debris is ubiquitous across the global ocean and is an increasing threat to human health, economies, habitats, and wildlife. While local to national action plans are important in addressing this issue, they do not necessarily reflect the needs of ...
Veronica M. Padula +4 more
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Komposisi dan Distribusi Sampah Laut di Pantai Pasir Putih Losari, Brebes, Jawa Tengah
The coastal area is an important sector in the tourism industry, which plays as an affected area but also a contributor to marine debris. Therefore, environmental health risks due to Marine debris have become a major concern at the international ...
Rijal Amri +5 more
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Quantitative overview of marine debris ingested by marine megafauna
This review quantifies plastic interaction in marine biota. Firstly, entanglement and ingestion records for all marine birds, mammals, turtles, fish, and invertebrate species, are summarized from 747 studies. Marine debris affected 914 species through entanglement and/or ingestion. Ingestion was recorded for 701 species, entanglement was documented for
Kühn, Susanne +1 more
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