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

Plastic pollution is ubiquitous throughout the marine environment, yet estimates of the global abundance and weight of floating plastics have lacked data, particularly from the Southern Hemisphere and remote regions. Here we report an estimate of the total number of plastic particles and their weigh...

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Autores principales: Eriksen, Marcus, Lebreton, Laurent C. M., Carson, Henry S., Thiel, Martin, Moore, Charles J., Borerro, Jose C., Galgani, Francois, Ryan, Peter G., Reisser, Julia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4262196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25494041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111913

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4262196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25494041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111913

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