Microplastics are small plastic pieces ranging in size from 1μ to< 5 mm in diameter, are
water-soluble, and can be either primary as they are initially created in small sizes or …

Plastic pollution is an international environmental problem. Desire to act is shared from the
public to policymakers, yet motivation and approaches are diverging. Public attention is …

The surge of research on marine litter is generating important information on its inputs,
distribution and impacts, but data on the nature and origin of the litter remain scattered …

South Africa is thought to be one of the worst contributors of plastic into the sea globally.
Although some plastic items derive from offshore sources (mainly fishing and other maritime …

Identifying the source of marine litter is essential to design effective mitigation measures to
reduce plastic leakage into marine ecosystems. Kenya recently banned the use of …

Beaches are key attractions for tourism and recreation, and considerable effort is made to
keep beaches clean, yet many beaches still have substantial litter loads. Lasting solutions to …

Large-area, artificial floating marine litter (FML) targets were deployed during a controlled
field experiment and data acquisition campaign: the Plastic Litter Project 2021. A set of 22 …

Despite the consistent tagging of countries in Southeast Asia as among the top polluters of
plastics in the oceans and the increasing local literature documenting the presence and …

To implement effective mitigation measures to stop the flow of litter from land-based sources
into the sea, it is important to identify key pollution sources and to monitor litter trends over …

This study documented the levels of microplastics in three commercially important small
pelagic fish species in South African waters, namely European anchovy (Engraulis …