Understanding the sources of marine litter in remote islands: The Galapagos islands as a case study.
Dumping from ships
Galapagos islands
Land-based sources
Marine litter
Plastic contamination
Journal
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
ISSN: 1873-6424
Titre abrégé: Environ Pollut
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8804476
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
13 Mar 2024
13 Mar 2024
Historique:
received:
10
01
2024
revised:
21
02
2024
accepted:
10
03
2024
pubmed:
16
3
2024
medline:
16
3
2024
entrez:
15
3
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Determining the sources of marine litter is necessary to mitigate this increasing global problem. Plastic bottles are useful tracers of marine litter and constitute the main item (24%) stranding on remote beaches in the Galapagos Islands. The aim of this study was to estimate the abundance of plastic bottles in remote beaches and inferred their sources. To do so, we collected plastic bottles at 60 remote Galapagos Island beaches from 2018 to 2022. 76% of beaches were qualified as badly polluted, with >34 bottles·100 m
Identifiants
pubmed: 38490527
pii: S0269-7491(24)00486-X
doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123772
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
123772Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
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.