Seven years into the North Pacific garbage patch: legacy plastic fragments rising disproportionally faster than larger floating objects

Seven years into the North Pacific garbage patch: legacy plastic fragments rising disproportionally faster than larger floating objects

The North Pacific garbage patch has accumulated floating plastic pollution for several decades. The Ocean Cleanup, a not-for-profit organization that works to retrieve this floating plastic, has conducted systematic surveys in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre since 2015. The dataset, now spanning...

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Main Authors: Laurent Lebreton, Robin de Vries, Yannick Pham, Helen Wolter, Marjolein van Vulpen, Peter Puskic, Bruno Sainte-Rose, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Matthias Egger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
plastic pollution
North Pacific garbage patch
ocean plastics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad78ed
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