Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

By K. L. Law, Skye Morét-Ferguson, N. Maximenko, G. Proskurowski, Emily E. Peacock, J. Hafner, C. Reddy. Science, 2010

1,259 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. A. Lusher
2. Colin R. Janssen
3. Richard C. Thompson
4. L. Van Cauwenberghe
5. T. Galloway
6. P. Ryan
7. P. Lindeque
8. M. Cole

In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. A. Lusher
2. Richard C. Thompson
3. Colin R. Janssen
4. L. Van Cauwenberghe
5. P. Ryan
6. F. Galgani
7. L. Hoogenboom
8. P. Lindeque

In Pollution

1. A. Lusher
2. Richard C. Thompson
3. Colin R. Janssen
4. L. Hoogenboom
5. L. Van Cauwenberghe
6. P. Ryan
7. F. Galgani
8. T. Galloway

Citations in the corpus

• Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review on occurrence, environmental effects, and methods for microplastics detection. (2017, background): “The factors affecting the distribution include such large-scale forces as currents driven by wind and geostrophic circulation (Law et al., 2010), turbulence and oceanographic effects (Ballent et al.”
• An overview of chemical additives present in plastics: Migration, release, fate and environmental impact during their use, disposal and recycling. (2018, background): “the great oceanic gyres [48], nd/or accumulated in the centre of gyres [49,50].”
• Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea (2014, background): “This had been shown for the northern hemisphere where long-term surface transport (years) leads to the accumulation of plastic litter in the center of the ocean basins [6, 7].”
• Plastic Accumulation in the Mediterranean Sea (2015, background): “An initial rise in plastic pollution in the Mediterranean followed by a subsequent period of steady concentrations would agree with the patterns found in other ocean regions [1, 4, 31], but the limited spatial and temporal resolution of the data and the different assessment methods (visual counts vs”
• Critical review of global plastics stock and flow data (2021, background): “Such a substantial amount of long-lived plastics waste causes a variety of critical environmental, ecological, and health issues (Khoo et al., 2010; Law et al., 2010; Peng et al., 2018; Perkins, 2015; Thompson et al., 2009a).”