In recent years, citizen science has proven to be an effective means of monitoring plastic
litter, bring potential benefits to professional researchers and authorities, and create …

Plastic and microplastic contamination in the environment receive global attention, with calls
for the synthesis of scientific evidence to inform actionable strategies and policy-relevant …

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 …

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Abstract The use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS, aka drones) has shown to be feasible
to perform marine litter surveys. We operationally tested the use of multispectral images (5 …

Rapid population growth creating an excessive pressure on the marine environment and
thus monitoring of marine ecosystem is essential. However, due to high technical and …

Previous studies indicated that weathered conventional plastics and bioplastics pose
ecotoxicological risks. Here, the effects of artificial and natural weathering on the ecotoxicity …

If biodegradable plastics tackle the marine plastic pollution problem sufficiently remains
questionable. To gain more insight in degradability, performance, and the impact of …

This study forms the first record to systematically quantify and classify the marine debris from
Car Nicobar Island. Car Nicobar is a small remotely located Island in the Nicobar …

Floating marine debris is ubiquitous in marine environments but knowledge about quantities
in remote regions is still limited. Here, we present the results of an extensive survey of …