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Industrial optical sorting for marine plastic litter management
Waste Management BulletinThe aim of this study is to evaluate the possibility of incorporating marine litter from the coast into the management system of the non-selectively collected fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW).
A. Mendoza +5 more
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Recycled electronic plastic and marine litter [PDF]
Science of The Total Environment, 2019 Black consumer plastics are often contaminated with hazardous chemicals because of technological constraints on sorting dark plastic during recycling of municipal waste coupled with the convenience of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) as a secondary source of black plastic.
Emma J. Shaw, Andrew Turner
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The links between marine plastic litter and the air-sea flux of greenhouse gases
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Climate change and plastic pollution are two of the most pressing environmental challenges caused by human activity, and they are directly and indirectly linked.
Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy +5 more
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Hyperspectral Imaging Zero-Shot Learning for Remote Marine Litter Detection and Classification
Remote Sensing, 2022 This paper addresses the development of a novel zero-shot learning method for remote marine litter hyperspectral imaging data classification. The work consisted of using an airborne acquired marine litter hyperspectral imaging dataset that contains data ...
Sara Freitas, Hugo Silva, Eduardo Silva
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High-Resolution Aerial Detection of Marine Plastic Litter by Hyperspectral Sensing [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 An automatic custom-made procedure is developed to identify macroplastic debris loads in coastal and marine environment, through hyperspectral imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Results obtained during a remote-sensing field campaign carried out in the seashore of Sassari (Sardinia, Italy) are presented.
Marco Balsi +3 more
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GNSS-R Observations of Marine Plastic Litter in a Water Flume: An Experimental Study
Remote Sensing, 2023 Currently, eight million metric tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year, and microplastics in different forms are present in almost all water systems in the world: streams, rivers, lakes, or oceans, and even in our blood.
Amadeu Gonga +5 more
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Thermogravimetric analysis and kinetic study of marine plastic litter [PDF]
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018 This paper deals with marine plastic debris and its collection and recycling methods as one possible answer to the rising amount of plastic in marine environments. A novel approach is to use energy recovery, for example pyrolysis of marine plastic debris into high-energy products.
Gregor Tondl +2 more
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THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND NATIONAL LAW IN HANDLING MARINE PLASTIC LITTER
Lampung Journal of International Law, 2020 The spread of marine plastic litter is increasing and dangerous for habitats and marine living such as the discovery of plastic in fish, sea turtles, whale mammals and even seabirds.
Andreas Pramudianto
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Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2021 Marine debris has contributed considerably to marine pollution and it is one of the global trends for the environmental issue. Marine litter causes impacts to biota, economic impacts, to fishing and to the aesthetics of beaches, which demonstrates the ...
Cristiane Rosa, Walter Martin Widmer
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Maarine and macroplastic litter monitoring and strategic recommendation for reducing pollution: case study from Semarang City [PDF]
Archives of Environmental Protection, 2023 Indonesia is one of the largest contributors to global marine litter deposition, given its high population and the largest archipelagic country. The increasing problem of plastic littering has recently attracted the attention of researchers.
Badrus Zaman +4 more
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