Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea.

By C. Schmidt, T. Krauth, S. Wagner. Environmental Science and Technology, 2017

1,176 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. E. van Sebille
2. A. Pozzi
3. G. Binda
4. M. Thiel
5. A. Cera
6. G. Cesarini
7. M. Seeley
8. Melanie Bergmann

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5. Melanie Bergmann
6. Lei Mai
7. M. L. Guardia
8. A. Pozzi

Citations in the corpus

• The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris (2020, background): “Large rivers can move plastic debris originating on land out to sea (Lebreton et al 2017, Schmidt et al 2017).”
• The world’s growing municipal solid waste: trends and impacts (2020, background): “Plastic inputs from riverine watersheds will be important for future consideration, especially microplastics from poorly managed inland waste (van Calcar et al 2019, Schmidt et al 2017, van Wijnen et al 2019).”
• Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater Environments: A Review, Focusing on Interactions with Sediments and Benthic Organisms (2020, background): “Rivers play an important role in the transport of plastic into lakes, seas, and oceans [31,63,64].”
• Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Development Goals, and Need to Focus on Circular Economy and Policy Interventions (2021, background): “[23] reported that plastics get transported from land to oceans via rivers; the Yangtze River carries 1,469,481 tons of plastics, followed by the Indus River (164,332 tons), Yellow River (124,249 tons), Hai He (91,858 tons), Nile (84,792 tons), Meghna, Ganga, and Brahmaputra (72,845 tons), Pearl (52”
• More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean (2021, background): “Previous studies (10, 11) on global river emissions of plastic in the ocean were mainly calibrated against data collected in European and North American rivers.”
• Microplastics in Fish and Shellfish – A Threat to Seafood Safety? (2020, background): “Macroplastics in the oceans may originate from several sources such as rivers (Schmidt et al. 2017), lost or abandoned fishing gears, illegal waste dumping at sea, or mismanaged plastic waste in general (Lusher et al. 2017).”
• Microplastics in Freshwater: What Is the News from the World? (2020, background): “Moreover, rivers are proposed as the main source of plastics for seas and oceans [29,30].”
• A Global Perspective on Microplastics (2020, background): “As land‐based sources of plastic debris dominate, rivers act as major receptors and conduits of debris to lacustrine systems (Schmidt et al., 2017).”