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

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Quantifying changes in litter loads in urban stormwater run-off from Cape Town, South Africa, over the last two decades

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

(2020) Peter G. Ryan   WASTE MANAGEMENT

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Coastal accumulation of microplastic particles emitted from the Po River, Northern Italy: Comparing remote sensing and hydrodynamic modelling with in situ sample collections

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Macro-litter in surface waters from the Rhone River: Plastic pollution and loading to the NW Mediterranean Sea

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A synthesis of three decades of socio-ecological change in False Bay, South Africa: setting the scene for multidisciplinary research and management

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

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Spatio-temporal comparison of neustonic microplastic density in Hong Kong waters under the influence of the Pearl River Estuary

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

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Differentiating littering, urban runoff and marine transport as sources of marine debris in coastal and estuarine environments

(2017) Kathryn Willis et al.   Scientific Reports

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Seasonal variation in the abundance of marine plastic debris in the estuary of a subtropical macro-scale drainage basin in South China

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(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

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(2014) K.A. McQuaid et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

The effect of fine-scale sampling frequency on estimates of beach litter accumulation

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

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Origin, dynamics and evolution of ocean garbage patches from observed surface drifters

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