Floating marine macro litter in the Black Sea: Toward baselines for large scale assessment

Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean

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Identifying distribution and accumulation patterns of floating marine debris in the Black Sea

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Microplastics and floating litter pollution in Bulgarian Black Sea coastal waters

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Closing the Mediterranean Marine Floating Plastic Mass Budget: Inverse Modeling of Sources and Sinks

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Floating marine macro-litter in the North Western Mediterranean Sea: Results from a combined monitoring approach

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Baseline and power analyses for the assessment of beach litter reductions in the European OSPAR region

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Low abundance of floating marine debris in the northern Baltic Sea

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Surface water circulation develops seasonally changing patterns of floating litter accumulation in the Mediterranean Sea. A modelling approach

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Distribution and trajectories of floating and benthic marine macrolitter in the south-eastern North Sea

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Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

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Distribution and composition of floating macro litter off the Azores archipelago and Madeira (NE Atlantic) using opportunistic surveys

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Abundance and composition of floating marine macro litter on the eastern sector of the Mediterranean Sea

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Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

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Spatial distribution of floating marine debris in offshore continental Portuguese waters

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Does size and buoyancy affect the long-distance transport of floating debris?

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First observations on the abundance and composition of floating debris in the North-western Black Sea

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Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

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Plastic Accumulation in the Mediterranean Sea

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Floating debris in the Mediterranean Sea

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

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Plastic debris in the open ocean

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