Message in a bottle: Assessing the sources and origins of beach litter to tackle marine pollution.

Bathing Beaches Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Plastics Waste Products / analysis
Atlantic Ocean Dumping at sea Indian Ocean Local sources Long-distance drift Plastic pollution

Journal

Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
ISSN: 1873-6424
Titre abrégé: Environ Pollut
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8804476

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Nov 2021
Historique:
received: 01 01 2021
revised: 17 06 2021
accepted: 04 07 2021
pubmed: 11 7 2021
medline: 30 9 2021
entrez: 10 7 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Beaches are key attractions for tourism and recreation, and considerable effort is made to keep beaches clean, yet many beaches still have substantial litter loads. Lasting solutions to reduce the amounts of marine litter require an understanding of litter sources. We collected bottles and other single-use containers at 32 sites around the South African coast to infer their sources based on their age and country of manufacture. Bottle densities varied greatly among beaches (8-450 bottles·km

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117729 PMID: 34245982
pubmed: 34245982
pii: S0269-7491(21)01311-7
doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117729
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Plastics 0
Waste Products 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

117729

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Peter G Ryan (PG)

FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa. Electronic address: pryan31@gmail.com.

Eleanor A Weideman (EA)

FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.

Vonica Perold (V)

FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.

Greg Hofmeyr (G)

Port Elizabeth Museum at Bayworld, Humewood, 6013, Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Department of Zoology, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Marine Apex Predator Research Unit, Nelson Mandela University, 6031, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Maëlle Connan (M)

Department of Zoology, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Marine Apex Predator Research Unit, Nelson Mandela University, 6031, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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