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Marine debris occurrence and treatment: A review [PDF]
, 2016 Marine debris produces a wide variety of negative environmental, economic, safety, health and cultural impacts. Most marine litter has a very low decomposition rate (as plastics, which are the most abundant type of marine debris), leading to a gradual ...
Conesa, Juan A. +2 more
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Jurnal Ilmiah Perikanan dan Kelautan, 2021 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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FACETS, 2023 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
Jurnal Kelautan Tropis, 2023 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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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 2008 A new U.S. federal interagency report on preventing and reducing marine debris focuses on responses to debris already in the environment, prevention of debris, research and development, and coordination among agencies. The report, released on 22 September, was prepared by 11 federal agencies and is intended to guide the strategies of federal agencies ...
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Lobster trap debris in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary: distribution, abundance, density, and patterns of accumulation [PDF]
, 2014 The fishery for spiny lobster Panulirus argus in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is well chronicled, but little information is available on the prevalence of lost or abandoned lobster traps.
Lewis, Cynthia +2 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Accumulation of anthropogenic marine debris on shorelines is an issue of global concern, even impacting areas that are remote, uninhabited, or have protected area status.
Clare L. W. Steele +2 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020 Marine debris is a threat to our ocean that can be more effectively addressed through monitoring and assessment of items stranded on shorelines. This study engaged citizen scientists to conduct shoreline marine debris surveys according to a published ...
Amy V. Uhrin +9 more
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Marine Debris on New Zealand Beaches - Baseline Data to Evaluate Regional Variances
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 Terrestrial sources of marine debris on beaches are substantial, increasing, and are primarily a result of mismanaged waste on land. The scale, source, and composition of beached marine debris in New Zealand was determined by surveying 41 beaches, with ...
Ella van Gool +5 more
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Centurial‐millenial ice‐rafted debris pulses from ablating marine ice sheets [PDF]
, 2001 We use an ice‐sheet model to show that (i) margins of marine ice‐sheets can be expected to be frozen to the bed, except where ice‐streams discharge; (ii) 20–50km retreats induced by ablation rates of 2 m/yr provide sufficient debris flux through the ...
Hindmarsh, Richard C.A., Jenkins, Adrian
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