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 …

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 …

Every year> 4 million tonnes of plastic are estimated to enter the oceans and much of it
comes from land-based sources through rivers and estuaries. To fill the lack of information …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV, aka drones) are being used for mapping macro-litter in the
environment. As drone images require a manual processing task for detecting marine litter, it …

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS, aka drones) are being used to map macro-litter on the
environment. Sixteen qualified researchers (operators), with different expertise and …

Stranded marine debris (MD) has become a hot topic on Bali Island because it threatens
coastal tourism sustainability. This study aims to investigate the spatiotemporal abundance …

Floating plastic debris represent an environmental threat to the maritime environment as
they drift the oceans. Developing tools to detect and remove them from our oceans is critical …

The insatiable desire of society for plastic goods has led to synthetic materials becoming
omnipresent in the marine environment. In attempting to address the problem of plastic …