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

Understanding the global mass inventory is one of the main challenges in present research on plastic marine debris. Especially the fragmentation and vertical transport processes of oceanic plastic are poorly understood. However, whereas fragmentation rates are unknown, information on plastic emissio...

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Main Authors: Albert A Koelmans, Merel Kooi, Kara Lavender Law, Erik van Sebille
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9500