Carolynn Box

TL;DR: As textile-derived fibers were more abundant in wastewater, higher levels of fragments in surface water suggest additional pathways of microplastic pollution, such as stormwater runoff.

TL;DR: Based on a comprehensive assessment of microplastics in San Francisco Bay water, sediment, fish, bivalves, stormwater, and wastewater effluent, recommended best practices for collecting, analyzing, and reporting microplastic in environmental media are developed.

TL;DR: Citizen science, fetch modeling, relative exposure index and predictive mapping were used to determine marine debris source and abundance in South Eleuthera, The Bahamas and there were spatial differences in plastic debris abundance between coastal exposures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report how these mitigation strategies are employed in the Arctic to minimize plastic waste impacts, and move Arctic communities toward better materials management and circular economic practices, and report the evidence of harm from waste plastics exacerbated by the ubiquity of plastic marine pollution in all biomes, and the rapid reporting of ecological and social costs, together suggest that we know enough to act quickly to manage and mitigate plastics from all sources to the Arctic.