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Plastic Marine Pollution in the Gulf of Maine

open access: yesMaine Policy Review, 2023
Kara Lavender Law   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Impact of nano-sized plastic on the nutritional value and gut microbiota of whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei via dietary exposure

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2019
Contamination of the world's oceans with plastic waste has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Whereas the ecological consequences of plastic pollution have been the focus of increasing research, the health-related implications of plastic ...
Yooeun Chae   +4 more
doaj  

The Mitigation of Marine Plastic Pollution in International Law [PDF]

open access: yes
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. The massive accumulation of plastics in marine environments is one of the most pressing environmental concerns of our time.
Schäli, Judith
core   +1 more source

Modeling of small sea floaters in the central Mediterranean Sea: seasonality of at-sea distributions [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
Floating marine debris represent a threat to marine and coastal ecology. Since the Mediterranean basin is one of the highly impacted regions, both by the coastal pollution as well as from sea traffic, the potential harm of a floating pollution on the marine ecology could be overwhelming in this area.
arxiv  

Enhancing Marine Debris Acoustic Monitoring by Optical Flow-Based Motion Vector Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
With the development of coastal construction, a large amount of human-generated waste, particularly plastic debris, is continuously entering the ocean, posing a severe threat to marine ecosystems. The key to effectively addressing plastic pollution lies in the ability to autonomously monitor such debris.
arxiv  

The Roles of Cities, Industries, and Public as Stakeholders in Combating Marine Plastic Pollution within the Framework of the Emerging Plastic Regime (Plastic treaty) Why are these stakeholders relevant and how should they be included in the plastic regime [PDF]

open access: yes
Marine plastic pollution presents a critical issue that impacts numerous nations and populations. Various international treaties currently address different sources of marine pollution, primarily structured around a conventional state-centric conception.
Pataki, Apostolia Margarita
core  

Plastic Pollution and the Global Throwaway Culture: Environmental Injustices of Single-use Plastic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The global throwaway culture has created a cross-ecosystem plastic pollution injustice. The first to suffer this injustice will be the most vulnerable. Our oceans have become our dumpsters. The throwaway culture has created a disrespect of material goods
McDermott, Kristin L.
core   +1 more source

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