Beach litter monitoring programs play a key role in establishing effective management
measures to preserve the ecological, scenic, and economic value of the coastal areas. In …

Curbing the growing threat of marine litter requires reliable, coherent and fit-for-purpose
data. The present study reports the findings of beach macrolitter surveys carried out in …

In the present paper, for the first time, the presence of beach litter in dunal plants has been
verified in a Strait area in an island. The aims of the present study were to evaluate if the …

Marine litter, particularly microplastics, is a growing threat to the Mediterranean Sea,
impacting biodiversity and ecosystem health. However, most studies conducted in the …

The issue of plastic pollution has dramatically intensified in the recent years. Our study
investigates extensive plastic contamination of a sandy beach on a small Adriatic island. The …

Management of plastic litter in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is expensive but crucial to
avoid harms to critical environments. In the present work, an open-source numerical …

Marine litter in coastal areas represents a significant environmental issue that severely
impacts biodiversity, ecosystems, human well-being and economic activities. This study …

Environmental stressors, such as biodiversity loss, climate change and fluctuations, alien
species invasions, land-based pollutants and anthropogenic stressors, such as intensive …

Plastic bags, bottles, packing tapes, and fishing lines are at the forefront of the discussion on
plastic pollution in the oceans. However, scientific interest on the role of cotton buds in such …