Plastic waste discharge to the global ocean constrained by seawater observations

Abstract Marine plastic pollution poses a potential threat to the ecosystem, but the sources and their magnitudes remain largely unclear. Existing bottom-up emission inventories vary among studies for two to three orders of magnitudes (OMs). Here, we adopt a top-down approach that uses observed data...

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Main Authors: Yanxu Zhang, Peipei Wu, Ruochong Xu, Xuantong Wang, Lili Lei, Amina T. Schartup, Yiming Peng, Qiaotong Pang, Xinle Wang, Lei Mai, Ruwei Wang, Huan Liu, Xiaotong Wang, Arjen Luijendijk, Eric Chassignet, Xiaobiao Xu, Huizhong Shen, Shuxiu Zheng, Eddy Y. Zeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37108-5