Marine litter within the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive
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...The MSFD “litter” designation includes microplastics and acknowledges a limitation in “knowledge of the accumulation, sources, sinks … environmental impacts … temporal and spatial patterns and potential physical and chemical impacts” ofmicroplastics (Galgani et al., 2010, 2013)....
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...difficulties of samplingmicroplastics frombenthic and pelagic habitats limit present knowledge of spatial and temporal distributions (Hidalgo-Ruz et al., 2012; Galgani et al., 2013; NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, 2013); techniques are generally time consuming and unable to identify all particles (Galgani et al....
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...Discussion of the cost/benefit of a monitoring approach, and the time requirements of processing, might be especially important in scenarios where regular monitoring is needed to determine geographic origins of waste (Galgani et al., 2013)....
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...…frombenthic and pelagic habitats limit present knowledge of spatial and temporal distributions (Hidalgo-Ruz et al., 2012; Galgani et al., 2013; NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, 2013); techniques are generally time consuming and unable to identify all particles (Galgani et al., 2013)....
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...Microplastics are not regularly monitored so there is no available baseline information at present (Galgani et al., 2010, 2013)....
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...The indicator 10 of the MSFD related to marine liter with a focus on microplastics indicates that the solution for marine plastic pollution is to tackle the problem at its source....
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...Furthermore, this study could serve the implementation of the marine strategy framework directive (MSFD) (Galgani et al., 2013) aiming to achieve by 2020 the good environmental status for European marine waters....
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...Furthermore, this study could serve the implementation of the marine strategy framework directive (MSFD) (Galgani et al., 2013) aiming to achieve by 2020 the good environmental status for European marine waters....
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...Here, MP are covered by Descriptor 10 of Commission Decision 2010/477/EU, which defines the good environmental status of marine waters [73]....
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...Pieces of common polymers (including polyester, nylon, polyethylene and polypropylene) of less than 20µm have been recorded worldwide (Barnes et al., 2009)....
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...Litter is accumulating in both densely-populated areas and remote regions such as the Antarctic (Barnes et al., 2009)....
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...Litter is accumulating in densely populated areas and remote regions such as the Antarctic alike (Barnes et al., 2009)....
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...Nonetheless, plastic micro-particles have been reported in quantities exceeding 100,000 items/km2 (Thompson et al. 2009) in the North Sea....
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