Overseas garbage pollution on beaches of northeast Brazil

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 783-786

  Santos, Isaac Rodrigues ^a,b   Friedrich, Ana Claudia ^a,b   Barretto, Fabiano Prado ^a  

^a Local Beach   (Germany)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACH; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTAINER; MATERIALS; PACKAGING MATERIAL; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEWAGE; TURTLE; WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; SWIMMING;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

TESTUDINES;

PLASTIC;

BATHING BEACHES; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GARBAGE; HUMANS; PLASTICS;

EID: 21244491541     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2005.04.044     Document Type: Article

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