Toward a long-term monitoring program for seawater plastic pollution in the north Pacific Ocean: Review and global comparison

Importance of Seasonal Sea Ice in the Western Arctic Ocean to the Arctic and Global Microplastic Budgets

(2021) Seung-Kyu Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Mesh selectivity of neuston nets for microplastics

(2021) Tadashi Tokai et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Distribution of floating marine macro-litter in relation to oceanographic characteristics in the Russian Arctic Seas

(2021) Maria Pogojeva et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Prevalence of small high-density microplastics in the continental shelf and deep sea waters of East Asia

(2021) Soeun Eo et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Entanglement of Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) at colonies in central Namibia

(2021) S. Curtis et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas

(2021) Linsey E. Haram et al.   Nature Communications

Microplastics in edible salt: a literature review focusing on uncertainty related with measured minimum cutoff sizes

(2021) Seung-Kyu Kim et al.   Current Opinion in Food Science

Floating macro- and microplastics around the Southern Ocean: Results from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

(2020) Giuseppe Suaria et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Are we underestimating microplastic abundance in the marine environment? A comparison of microplastic capture with nets of different mesh-size

(2020) Penelope K. Lindeque et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Tying up Loose Ends of Microplastic Pollution in the Arctic: Distribution from the Sea Surface through the Water Column to Deep-Sea Sediments at the HAUSGARTEN Observatory

(2020) Mine B. Tekman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Rapid Production of Micro- and Nanoplastics by Fragmentation of Expanded Polystyrene Exposed to Sunlight

(2020) Young Kyoung Song et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Using citizen science to investigate the spatial-temporal distribution of floating marine litter in the waters around Taiwan

(2020) Ching-Chun Chiu et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution

(2020) Winnie W. Y. Lau et al.   SCIENCE

Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization

(2020) Giuseppe Suaria et al.   Science Advances

Microplastic pollution in surface water from east coastal areas of Guangdong, South China and preliminary study on microplastics biomonitoring using two marine fish

(2020) Chaonan Zhang et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

(2020) Stephanie B. Borrelle et al.   SCIENCE

Risks of floating microplastic in the global ocean

(2020) G. Everaert et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics accumulate to thin layers in the stratified Baltic Sea

(2020) Emilia Uurasjärvi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Variation and Uncertainty of Microplastics in Commercial Table Salts: Critical Review and Validation

(2020) Hee-Jee Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

A near-synoptic survey of ocean microplastic concentration along an around-the-world sailing race

(2020) Toste Tanhua et al.   PLoS One

Ecological risk assessment of microplastics in coastal, shelf, and deep sea waters with a consideration of environmentally relevant size and shape

(2020) Jae-Woong Jung et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Nationwide monitoring of microplastics in bivalves from the coastal environment of Korea

(2020) Youna Cho et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Comparative study of three sampling methods for microplastics analysis in seawater

(2020) Yifan Zheng et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Are We Speaking the Same Language? Recommendations for a Definition and Categorization Framework for Plastic Debris

(2019) Nanna B. Hartmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Abundance of non-conservative microplastics in the upper ocean from 1957 to 2066

(2019) Atsuhiko Isobe et al.   Nature Communications

Validation and application of cost and time effective methods for the detection of 3–500 μm sized microplastics in the urban marine and estuarine environments surrounding Long Beach, California

(2019) Kara J. Wiggin et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The rise in ocean plastics evidenced from a 60-year time series

(2019) Clare Ostle et al.   Nature Communications

Simplifying Microplastic via Continuous Probability Distributions for Size, Shape, and Density

(2019) Merel Kooi et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Quarterly variability of floating plastic debris in the marine protected area of the Menorca Channel (Spain)

(2019) Luis F. Ruiz-Orejón et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Multidecadal increase in plastic particles in coastal ocean sediments

(2019) Jennifer A. Brandon et al.   Science Advances

Abundance, composition, and distribution of microplastics larger than 20 μm in sand beaches of South Korea

(2018) Soeun Eo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Risk assessment of microplastics in the ocean: Modelling approach and first conclusions

(2018) Gert Everaert et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Amount, composition, and spatial distribution of floating macro litter along fixed trans-border transects in the Mediterranean basin

(2018) Antonella Arcangeli et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Now, you see me: High concentrations of floating plastic debris in the coastal waters of the Balearic Islands (Spain)

(2018) Luis F. Ruiz-Orejón et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Entanglement of birds in plastics and other synthetic materials

(2018) Peter G. Ryan   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Occurrence of microplastics in the water column and sediment in an inland sea affected by intensive anthropogenic activities

(2018) Zhenfei Dai et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Quantifying ecological risks of aquatic micro- and nanoplastic

(2018) Ellen Besseling et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Horizontal and Vertical Distribution of Microplastics in Korean Coastal Waters

(2018) Young Kyoung Song et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Global Pattern of Microplastics (MPs) in Commercial Food-Grade Salts: Sea Salt as an Indicator of Seawater MP Pollution

(2018) Ji-Su Kim et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microplastics in the aquatic environment: Evidence for or against adverse impacts and major knowledge gaps

(2018) Emily E. Burns et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Microplastic content variation in water column: The observations employing a novel sampling tool in stratified Baltic Sea

(2018) M.B. Zobkov et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Combined Effects of UV Exposure Duration and Mechanical Abrasion on Microplastic Fragmentation by Polymer Type

(2017) Young Kyoung Song et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Floating Marine Debris in waters of the Mexican Central Pacific

(2017) Evelyn R. Díaz-Torres et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Navigational threats by derelict fishing gear to navy ships in the Korean seas

(2017) Sunwook Hong et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Ingestion of microplastics by natural zooplankton groups in the northern South China Sea

(2017) Xiaoxia Sun et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans

(2017) Laurent C. M. Lebreton et al.   Nature Communications

The Arctic Ocean as a dead end for floating plastics in the North Atlantic branch of the Thermohaline Circulation

(2017) Andrés Cózar et al.   Science Advances

Estimating quantities and sources of marine debris at a continental scale

(2016) Britta Denise Hardesty et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters

(2016) Giuseppe Suaria et al.   Scientific Reports

Microplastics in the Ocean

(2015) Won Joon Shim et al.   ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

(2015) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

An evaluation of surface micro- and mesoplastic pollution in pelagic ecosystems of the Western Mediterranean Sea

(2015) Florian Faure et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Plastic and marine turtles: a review and call for research

(2015) Sarah E. Nelms et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Abundance, size and polymer composition of marine microplastics ≥ 10 μm in the Atlantic Ocean and their modelled vertical distribution

(2015) Kristina Enders et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

East Asian seas: A hot spot of pelagic microplastics

(2015) Atsuhiko Isobe et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

A comparison of microscopic and spectroscopic identification methods for analysis of microplastics in environmental samples

(2015) Young Kyoung Song et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Threat of plastic pollution to seabirds is global, pervasive, and increasing

(2015) Chris Wilcox et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Microplastics in Arctic polar waters: the first reported values of particles in surface and sub-surface samples

(2015) Amy L. Lusher et al.   Scientific Reports

Large Accumulation of Micro-sized Synthetic Polymer Particles in the Sea Surface Microlayer

(2014) Young Kyoung Song et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microplastic pollution in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean: Validated and opportunistic sampling

(2014) Amy L. Lusher et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Widespread distribution of microplastics in subsurface seawater in the NE Pacific Ocean

(2014) Jean-Pierre W. Desforges et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

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

(2014) S. Rech 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

Plastic debris in the open ocean

(2014) A. Cozar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microplastics in the seas

(2014) K. L. Law et al.   SCIENCE

Life in the “Plastisphere”: Microbial Communities on Plastic Marine Debris

(2013) Erik R. Zettler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A simple technique for counting marine debris at sea reveals steep litter gradients between the Straits of Malacca and the Bay of Bengal

(2013) Peter G. Ryan   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Anthropogenic marine debris in the coastal environment: A multi-year comparison between coastal waters and local shores

(2013) M. Thiel et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Annual variation in neustonic micro- and meso-plastic particles and zooplankton in the Bay of Calvi (Mediterranean–Corsica)

(2013) Amandine Collignon et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Increased oceanic microplastic debris enhances oviposition in an endemic pelagic insect

(2012) M. C. Goldstein et al.   Biology Letters

Impacts of marine debris on wild animals in the coastal area of Korea

(2012) Sunwook Hong et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Spatio-temporal distribution of floating objects in the German Bight (North Sea)

(2011) Martin Thiel et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in marine sediments along the Belgian coast

(2011) Michiel Claessens et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Pathways of marine debris derived from trajectories of Lagrangian drifters

(2011) Nikolai Maximenko et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The economic cost and control of marine debris damage in the Asia-Pacific region

(2011) Alistair McIlgorm et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Derelict fishing nets in Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits: Patterns and threats to marine fauna

(2009) Thomas P. Good et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN