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

The fate of missing ocean plastics: Are they just a marine environmental problem?

(2022) Atsuhiko Isobe et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A global plastic treaty must cap production

(2022) Melanie Bergmann et al.   SCIENCE

A new methodology for offshore wind speed assessment integrating Sentinel-1, ERA-Interim and in-situ measurement

(2021) M. Majidi Nezhad et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

Corporate self-commitments to mitigate the global plastic crisis: Recycling rather than reduction and reuse

(2021) Sebastian Rhein et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

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

Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution

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

Quality Criteria for Microplastic Effect Studies in the Context of Risk Assessment: A Critical Review

(2020) Vera N. de Ruijter et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

Spatiotemporal evolution of the international plastic resin trade network

(2020) Yanan Ren et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

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

(2019) Clare Ostle et al.   Nature Communications

Plastics at sea: Treaty design for a global solution to marine plastic pollution

(2019) Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Abundance of floating plastic particles is increasing in the western North Atlantic Ocean

(2019) Chris Wilcox et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microplastic sampling with the AVANI trawl compared to two neuston trawls in the Bay of Bengal and South Pacific

(2018) Marcus Eriksen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Why is the global governance of plastic failing the oceans?

(2018) Peter Dauvergne   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

The Chinese import ban and its impact on global plastic waste trade

(2018) Amy L. Brooks et al.   Science Advances

Building evidence around ghost gear: Global trends and analysis for sustainable solutions at scale

(2018) Kelsey Richardson et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

All is not lost: deriving a top-down mass budget of plastic at sea

(2017) Albert A Koelmans et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Seabirds, gyres and global trends in plastic pollution

(2015) Jan A. van Franeker et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

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

Passive buoyant tracers in the ocean surface boundary layer: 1. Influence of equilibrium wind-waves on vertical distributions

(2015) T. Kukulka et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

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 pollution in the South Pacific subtropical gyre

(2013) Marcus Eriksen et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine Plastic Pollution in Waters around Australia: Characteristics, Concentrations, and Pathways

(2013) Julia Reisser et al.   PLoS One

The effect of wind mixing on the vertical distribution of buoyant plastic debris

(2012) T. Kukulka et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The size, mass, and composition of plastic debris in the western North Atlantic Ocean

(2010) Skye Morét-Ferguson et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

(2010) K. L. Law et al.   SCIENCE