What potential does the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive have for reducing plastic pollution at coastlines and riversides? An evaluation based on citizen science data

A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required

(2023) Marcus Eriksen et al.   PLoS One

Curbing plastic consumption: A review of single-use plastic behaviour change interventions

(2022) Kim Borg et al.   Journal of Cleaner Production

Evaluating Canada's single-use plastic mitigation policies via brand audit and beach cleanup data to reduce plastic pollution

(2022) Lisa Baxter et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Toward a sustainable circular economy for cigarette butts, the most common waste worldwide on the coast

(2022) Mercedes Conradi et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Public preferences for marine plastic litter management across Europe

(2022) Salma Khedr et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

The “plastic cycle”: a watershed‐scale model of plastic pools and fluxes

(2021) Timothy J Hoellein et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Schoolchildren discover hotspots of floating plastic litter in rivers using a large-scale collaborative approach

(2021) Tim Kiessling et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Plastic industry plan to sue the Canadian federal government for listing plastic as toxic may increase plastic marine pollution

(2021) Tony R. Walker   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Rapid-Survey Methodology to Assess Litter Volumes along Large River Systems—A Case Study of the Tamsui River in Taiwan

(2021) Falk Schneider et al.   Sustainability

An inshore–offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter

(2021) Carmen Morales-Caselles et al.   Nature Sustainability

Litter origins, accumulation rates, and hierarchical composition on urban roadsides of the Inland Empire, California

(2021) Win Cowger et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

(2020) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Quantitative overview of marine debris ingested by marine megafauna

(2020) Susanne Kühn et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Sustainability Assessment of a Single-Use Plastics Ban

(2020) Timo Herberz et al.   Sustainability

Wasting the North Sea? – A field-based assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter loads and emission rates of three German tributaries

(2020) Rosanna Isabel Schöneich-Argent et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution

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

Plastic rain in protected areas of the United States

(2020) Janice Brahney et al.   SCIENCE

Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

(2020) Stephanie B. Borrelle et al.   SCIENCE

Quantification and composition analysis of plastic pollution in riverine beaches of the lower Paraná River, Argentina

(2020) Clara Mitchell et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Single-use plastics: Production, usage, disposal, and adverse impacts

(2020) Yuan Chen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Operating modes and cost burdens for the European deposit-refund systems: A systematic approach for their analysis and design

(2020) A. Calabrese et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Need a bag? A review of public policies on plastic carrier bags – Where, how and to what effect?

(2019) Tobias Dan Nielsen et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Is Plastic Pollution in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments a Driver for the Transmission of Pathogens and the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance?

(2019) Anutthaman Parthasarathy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A critical review of the issue of cigarette butt pollution in coastal environments

(2019) Maria Christina B. Araújo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Global ecological, social and economic impacts of marine plastic

(2019) Nicola J. Beaumont et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Life cycle assessment of carrier bags and development of a littering indicator

(2019) Didem Civancik-Uslu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Tackling the plastic problem: A review on perceptions, behaviors, and interventions

(2019) Lea Marie Heidbreder et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Wind, waves, tides, and human error? – Influences on litter abundance and composition on German North Sea coastlines: An exploratory analysis

(2019) Rosanna Isabel Schöneich-Argent et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Closing the loop for PET, PE and PP waste from households: Influence of material properties and product design for plastic recycling

(2019) M.K. Eriksen et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

What is known and unknown about the effects of plastic pollution: A meta‐analysis and systematic review

(2019) K. Bucci et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A systematic review of the deposit-refund system for beverage packaging: Operating mode, key parameter and development trend

(2019) Guangli Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Drivers, opportunities and barriers for a retailer in the pursuit of more sustainable packaging redesign

(2018) Jorge Ubirajara Gustavo et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Marine litter on the beaches of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas: An assessment of their abundance, composition and sources

(2018) Thomais Vlachogianni et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Developing Countries in the Lead—What Drives the Diffusion of Plastic Bag Policies?

(2018) Doris Knoblauch et al.   Sustainability

Reducing marine pollution from single-use plastics (SUPs): A review

(2018) Riley E.J. Schnurr et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Overview of known plastic packaging-associated chemicals and their hazards

(2018) Ksenia J. Groh et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Effectiveness of extended producer responsibility policies implementation: The case of Portuguese and Spanish packaging waste systems

(2018) Sergio Rubio et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Plastic Pirates sample litter at rivers in Germany – Riverside litter and litter sources estimated by schoolchildren

(2018) Tim Kiessling et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems: macro-, meso-, and microplastic debris in a floodplain lake

(2017) Martin C. M. Blettler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

International policies to reduce plastic marine pollution from single-use plastics (plastic bags and microbeads): A review

(2017) Dirk Xanthos et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine anthropogenic litter on British beaches: A 10-year nationwide assessment using citizen science data

(2017) SE Nelms et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Reducing single-use plastic shopping bags in the USA

(2017) Travis P. Wagner   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

(2017) Roland Geyer et al.   Science Advances

Bans vs. Fees: Disposable Carryout Bag Policies and Bag Usage

(2015) Rebecca L. Taylor et al.   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

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

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

Plastic in the Thames: A river runs through it

(2013) David Morritt et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN