Plastic Pirates sample litter at rivers in Germany - Riverside litter and litter sources estimated by schoolchildren.
Citizen science
Freshwater
Macrolitter
Plastic litter
Source identification
Journal
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
ISSN: 1873-6424
Titre abrégé: Environ Pollut
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8804476
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2019
Feb 2019
Historique:
received:
08
05
2018
revised:
06
11
2018
accepted:
08
11
2018
pubmed:
24
11
2018
medline:
8
3
2019
entrez:
24
11
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Rivers are an important source of marine anthropogenic litter, but the particular origins of riverine litter itself have not been well established. Here we used a citizen science approach where schoolchildren examined litter at riversides and identified possible sources at over 250 sampling spots along large and small rivers in Germany, during autumn 2016 and spring 2017. Litter densities have an overall median of 0.14, interquartile range 0-0.57 items m
Identifiants
pubmed: 30469125
pii: S0269-7491(18)32060-8
doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.11.025
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Plastics
0
Waste Products
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
545-557Informations de copyright
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