Citizen scientists study beach litter along 12,000 km of the East Pacific coast: A baseline for the International Plastic Treaty.
Cigarette butts
Collaborative science
Large-scale monitoring
Marine debris
Plastic pollution
Public policies
Journal
Marine pollution bulletin
ISSN: 1879-3363
Titre abrégé: Mar Pollut Bull
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0260231
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2023
Nov 2023
Historique:
received:
09
08
2023
revised:
26
08
2023
accepted:
30
08
2023
medline:
27
11
2023
pubmed:
20
10
2023
entrez:
19
10
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Anthropogenic Marine Litter (AML) accumulating on beaches causes damage to coastal ecosystems and high costs to local communities. Volunteers sampled AML on 130 beaches along the central and southern East Pacific coasts, with AML densities ranging from 0.46 to 2.26 items m
Identifiants
pubmed: 37857060
pii: S0025-326X(23)00915-3
doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115481
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Waste Products
0
Plastics
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115481Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.