Message in a bottle: Assessing the sources and origins of beach litter to tackle marine pollution

Limited dispersal of riverine litter onto nearby beaches during rainfall events

(2021) Peter G. Ryan et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Beach cleaning costs

(2020) Cesia J. Cruz et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Land or sea? What bottles tell us about the origins of beach litter in Kenya

(2020) Peter G. Ryan   WASTE MANAGEMENT

The costs of removing the unsanctioned import of marine plastic litter to small island states

(2020) April J. Burt et al.   Scientific Reports

Ingestion of plastic litter by the sandy anemone Bunodactis reynaudi

(2020) Eleanor A. Weideman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Message in a bottle: Open source technology to track the movement of plastic pollution

(2020) Emily M. Duncan et al.   PLoS One

To clean or not to clean? A critical review of beach cleaning methods and impacts

(2019) Seweryn Zielinski et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Rapid increase in Asian bottles in the South Atlantic Ocean indicates major debris inputs from ships

(2019) Peter G. Ryan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Entrapment in plastic debris endangers hermit crabs

(2019) Jennifer L. Lavers et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

A global mass budget for positively buoyant macroplastic debris in the ocean

(2019) Laurent Lebreton et al.   Scientific Reports

Persistent marine litter: small plastics and cigarette butts remain on beaches after organized beach cleanups

(2018) Xenia I. Loizidou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Consistent patterns of debris on South African beaches indicate that industrial pellets and other mesoplastic items mostly derive from local sources

(2018) Peter G. Ryan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Marine litter in south Bay of Biscay: Local differences in beach littering are associated with citizen perception and awareness

(2018) Fernando Rayon-Viña et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Tracing the source of marine debris on the beaches of northern New South Wales, Australia: The Bottles on Beaches program

(2018) Stephen D.A. Smith et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Killing the goose with the golden eggs: Litter effects on scenic quality of the Caribbean coast of Colombia

(2018) Nelson Rangel-Buitrago et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Accumulation and characteristics of plastic debris along five beaches in Cape Town

(2018) Takunda Y. Chitaka et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Modelling the accumulation and transport of floating marine micro-plastics around South Africa

(2018) C. Collins et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in sea coastal zone: Lessons learned from the Baltic amber

(2017) Irina Chubarenko et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Mapping Global Shipping Density from AIS Data

(2016) Lin Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF NAVIGATION

The flip-or-flop boutique: Marine debris on the shores of St Brandon's rock, an isolated tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean

(2016) Hindrik Bouwman et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Composition and potential origin of marine debris stranded in the Western Indian Ocean on remote Alphonse Island, Seychelles

(2015) Aurélie V. Duhec et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Anthropogenic pressure on the open ocean: The growth of ship traffic revealed by altimeter data analysis

(2014) J. Tournadre   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Rivers as a source of marine litter – A study from the SE Pacific

(2014) S. Rech et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

A multi-criteria evaluation system for marine litter pollution based on statistical analyses of OSPAR beach litter monitoring time series

(2013) Marcus Schulz et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Identification of self-reported user behavior, education level, and preferences to reduce littering on beaches – A survey from the SE Pacific

(2013) Lucas B. Eastman et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Including the economic value of well-functioning urban ecosystems in financial decisions: Evidence from a process in Cape Town

(2012) Martin de Wit et al.   Ecosystem Services

Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings--entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions

(2009) M. R. Gregory   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment

(2009) P. G. Ryan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES