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

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Eriksen, Marcus ^a   Lebreton, Laurent C M ^b   Carson, Henry S ^c,d   Thiel, Martin ^e,f,g   Moore, Charles J ^h   Borerro, Jose C ⁱ   Galgani, Francois ^j   Ryan, Peter G ^k   Reisser, Julia ^l  

^a 5 Gyres Institute   (United States)

^b Dumpark Data Science   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^e Universidad Católica del Norte   (Chile)

^f Universidad Católica del Norte   (Chile)

^g CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

^h Algalita Marine Research Foundation   (United States)

ⁱ ECoast Limited   (New Zealand)

^j IFREMER   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAY OF BENGAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTICLE SIZE; SEA; SEA POLLUTION; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; HYDRODYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTION; WIND;

HYDRODYNAMICS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLASTICS; WATER POLLUTION; WIND;

EID: 84914176492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111913     Document Type: Article

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