[HTML][HTML] The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on plastics and human health

PJ Landrigan, H Raps, M Cropper, C Bald… - Annals of Global …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …

The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

E Van Sebille, S Aliani, KL Law… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem.
However, its distribution in the ocean is poorly mapped, and most of the plastic waste …

Recent progress in blue energy harvesting for powering distributed sensors in ocean

T Zhao, M Xu, X Xiao, Y Ma, Z Li, ZL Wang - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Oceanography has received a lot of attention in the 21st century. Due to the harsh and
complex ocean conditions, ensuring power supply to the distributed marine equipment has …

[HTML][HTML] A review of microplastic pollution in aquaculture: Sources, effects, removal strategies and prospects

H Wu, J Hou, X Wang - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
As microplastic pollution has become an emerging environmental issue of global concern,
microplastics in aquaculture have become a research hotspot. For environmental safety …

Finding plastic patches in coastal waters using optical satellite data

L Biermann, D Clewley, V Martinez-Vicente… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Satellites collecting optical data offer a unique perspective from which to observe the
problem of plastic litter in the marine environment, but few studies have successfully …

[HTML][HTML] The fate of missing ocean plastics: Are they just a marine environmental problem?

A Isobe, S Iwasaki - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Investigating detection of floating plastic litter from space using sentinel-2 imagery

K Themistocleous, C Papoutsa, S Michaelides… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Plastic litter floating in the ocean is a significant problem on a global scale. This study
examines whether Sentinel-2 satellite images can be used to identify plastic litter on the sea …

Macroplastic storage and remobilization in rivers

M Liro, T Emmerik, B Wyżga, J Liro, P Mikuś - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
The paper presents a conceptual model of the route of macroplastic debris (> 5 mm) through
a fluvial system, which can support future works on the overlooked processes of …

MARIDA: A benchmark for Marine Debris detection from Sentinel-2 remote sensing data

K Kikaki, I Kakogeorgiou, P Mikeli, DE Raitsos… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Currently, a significant amount of research is focused on detecting Marine Debris and
assessing its spectral behaviour via remote sensing, ultimately aiming at new operational …

Floating marine litter detection algorithms and techniques using optical remote sensing data: A review

K Topouzelis, D Papageorgiou, G Suaria… - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Floating Marine Litter (FML) are mainly plastics or synthetic polymers that float on
the sea surface after being deliberately discarded or unintentionally lost along beaches …