Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

Plastics and other artificial materials pose new risks to health of the ocean. Anthropogenic
debris travels across large distances and is ubiquitous in the water and on the shorelines …

The fate of mismanaged plastic waste released into oceans (ocean plastics) remains a topic
of debate, where the mass imbalance between the leakage and abundance in the world's …

To investigate concentrations of pelagic micro-(< 5 mm in size) and mesoplastics (> 5 mm) in
the East Asian seas around Japan, field surveys using two vessels were conducted …

The abundance of beach litter has been increasing globally during the last decades, and it is
an issue of global concern. A new survey strategy, based on uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV …

Detection and identification of macroplastic debris in aquatic environments is crucial to
understand and counter the growing emergence and current developments in distribution …

Micro-and macroplastic accumulation threatens estuaries worldwide because of the often
dense human populations, diverse plastic inputs and high potential for plastic degradation …

Plastic pollution in coastal and marine areas is an ongoing environmental concern in the
world. Despite its growing concern worldwide, there is a knowledge gap in terms of its …

We assessed amounts, composition and net accumulation rates every~ 15 days of beach
macro litter (≥ 2.5 cm) on 4 Mediterranean beaches, on Corfu island, N. Ionian Sea, taking …

Plastic marine debris (PMD) is of global concern. To help address this problem, a novel
approach for estimating PMD volumes using a combination of unmanned aerial vehicle …