A first assessment of marine meso-litter and microplastics on beaches: Where does Mauritius stand?

First assessment of anthropogenic marine debris in mangrove forests of Mauritius, a small oceanic island

(2021) Linisha Devi Seeruttun et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Presence of microplastics in water, sediments and fish species in an urban coastal environment of Fiji, a Pacific small island developing state

(2020) Marta Ferreira et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter arrived: Distribution and potential sources on an unpopulated atoll in the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, Caribbean Sea

(2020) Luana Portz et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine macro-litter composition and distribution along the Kenyan Coast: The first-ever documented study

(2020) Eric Ochieng Okuku et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Baseline meso-litter pollution in selected coastal beaches of Kenya: Where do we concentrate our intervention efforts?

(2020) Eric Ochieng Okuku et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Beach litter distribution along the western Mediterranean coast of Spain

(2019) F. Asensio-Montesinos et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Abundance, characteristics and surface degradation features of microplastics in beach sediments of five coastal areas in Tamil Nadu, India

(2019) Narmatha Sathish et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Occurrence and identification of microplastics along a beach in the Biosphere Reserve of Lanzarote

(2019) Carlos Edo et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

So when will we have enough papers on microplastics and ocean litter?

(2019) Angel Borja et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Quantification and characterisation of microplastics ingested by selected juvenile fish species associated with mangroves in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

(2019) Trishan Naidoo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Evaluation of microplastics in beach sediments along the coast of Dubai, UAE

(2019) Huda Aslam et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic pollution in paradise: Daily accumulation rates of marine litter on Cousine Island, Seychelles

(2019) S.W. Dunlop et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Abundance, distribution patterns, and identification of microplastics in Brisbane River sediments, Australia

(2019) Beibei He et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Paradise Trashed: Sources and solutions to marine litter in a small island developing state

(2019) Krista M. Verlis et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Microplastic contamination in Lake Winnipeg, Canada

(2017) Philip J. Anderson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Characteristics of meso-sized plastic marine debris on 20 beaches in Korea

(2017) Jongsu Lee et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Spatial and temporal variation of macro-, meso- and microplastic abundance on a remote coral island of the Maldives, Indian Ocean

(2017) Hannes K. Imhof et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter in the Nordic Seas: Distribution composition and abundance

(2017) Lene Buhl-Mortensen et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Amberstripe scad Decapterus muroadsi (Carangidae) fish ingest blue microplastics resembling their copepod prey along the coast of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the South Pacific subtropical gyre

(2017) Nicolas Christian Ory et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Monitoring methods for large micro- and meso-litter and applications at Baltic beaches

(2017) Mirco Haseler et al.   JOURNAL OF COASTAL CONSERVATION

Transfer of benzo[a]pyrene from microplastics toArtemianauplii and further to zebrafish via a trophic food web experiment: CYP1A induction and visual tracking of persistent organic pollutants

(2016) Annika Batel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

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

Microplastics in tourist beaches of Huatulco Bay, Pacific coast of southern Mexico

(2016) I. Retama et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastic in three urban estuaries, China

(2015) Shiye Zhao et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects

(2015) Lisbeth Van Cauwenberghe 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

Microplastics in Four Estuarine Rivers in the Chesapeake Bay, U.S.A.

(2014) Lance T. Yonkos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

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

Suspended microplastics in the surface water of the Yangtze Estuary System, China: First observations on occurrence, distribution

(2014) Shiye Zhao et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea

(2014) Marcus Eriksen et al.   PLoS One

The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: A review

(2013) Stephanie L. Wright et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Marine litter within the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

(2013) F. Galgani et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Effects of natural and anthropogenic processes in the distribution of marine litter in the deep Mediterranean Sea

(2013) Eva Ramirez-Llodra et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Methods Used for Identification and Quantification

(2012) Valeria Hidalgo-Ruz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review

(2011) Matthew Cole et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in the marine environment

(2011) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

(2009) D. K. A. Barnes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plastics and beaches: A degrading relationship

(2008) Patricia L. Corcoran et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN