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Regional approach to modeling the transport of floating plastic debris in the Adriatic Sea.
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This model results show that the coastline of the Po Delta receives a plastic flux of approximately 70 kg(km day)(-1) and the most polluted sea surface area is represented by an elongated band shifted to the Italian coastline and narrowed from northwest to southeast.About:
This article is published in Marine Pollution Bulletin.The article was published on 2016-02-15. It has received 161 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Debris & Ocean current.read more
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COVID-19 pandemic repercussions on the use and management of plastics.
TL;DR: There is a need to assess alternatives that allow reductions of PPE and reinforce awareness on the proper public use and disposal, and assessment of contamination and impacts of plastics driven by the pandemic will be required once the outbreak ends.
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Transport of microplastics in coastal seas
TL;DR: The trajectory and speed of microplastics are controlled by their physical characteristics (density, size, and shape) and ocean dynamic conditions (wind, waves, tides, thermohaline gradients, and the influence of benthic sediments) as mentioned in this paper.
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Microplastics in the environment: A critical review of current understanding and identification of future research needs
Zeynep Akdogan,Basak Guven +1 more
TL;DR: The results reveal that whilst marine microplastics have received substantial scientific research, the extent of microplastic pollution in continental environments, such as rivers, lakes, soil and air, and environmental interactions, remains poorly understood.
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Influence of environmental and anthropogenic factors on the composition, concentration and spatial distribution of microplastics: A case study of the Bay of Brest (Brittany, France).
Laura Frère,Ika Paul-Pont,Emmanuel Rinnert,Sebastien Petton,J Jaffre,Isabelle Bihannic,Philippe Soudant,Christophe Lambert,Arnaud Huvet +8 more
TL;DR: The presence of buoyant microplastics (PE, PP and PS) in sediment suggests the existence of physical and/or biological processes leading to vertical transfer of lightweight microplastic in the Bay of Brest, and it is suggested that the observed spatial MP distribution is related to proximity to urbanized areas and to hydrodynamics in the bay.
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Microplastics as a vector for the transport of the bacterial fish pathogen species Aeromonas salmonicida.
TL;DR: This study examined the sea surface concentrations of microplastics in the North Adriatic and characterized bacterial communities living on themicroplastics and identified the pathogenic fish bacteria Aeromonas salmonicida for the first time on microplastic.
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Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean
Jenna Jambeck,Roland Geyer,Chris Wilcox,Theodore R. Siegler,Miriam E. Perryman,Anthony L. Andrady,Ramani Narayan,Kara Lavender Law +7 more
TL;DR: This work combines available data on solid waste with a model that uses population density and economic status to estimate the amount of land-based plastic waste entering the ocean, which is estimated to be 275 million metric tons.
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Jenna Jambeck,Roland Geyer,Chris Wilcox,Theodore R. Siegler,Anthony L. Andrady,Ramani Narayan,Kara Lavender Law +6 more
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Microplastics in the marine environment
TL;DR: The mechanisms of generation and potential impacts of microplastics in the ocean environment are discussed, and the increasing levels of plastic pollution of the oceans are understood, it is important to better understand the impact of microPlastic in the Ocean food web.
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Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: a review.
TL;DR: Ingestion of microplastics has been demonstrated in a range of marine organisms, a process which may facilitate the transfer of chemical additives or hydrophobic waterborne pollutants to biota.
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Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea
Marcus Eriksen,Laurent Lebreton,Henry S. Carson,Martin Thiel,Charles J. Moore,Jose C. Borerro,François Galgani,Peter G. Ryan,Julia Reisser +8 more
TL;DR: The total number of plastic particles and their weight floating in the world's oceans is estimated from 24 expeditions across all five sub-tropical gyres, costal Australia, Bay of Bengal and the Mediterranean Sea conducting surface net tows and visual survey transects of large plastic debris.