How much is a clean beach worth? The impact of litter on beach users in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.

By A. Ballance, P. Ryan, J. Turpie. 2000

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Global ecological, social and economic impacts of marine plastic. (2019, background): “…on the shore is disliked (Hartley et al., 2013), and is often stated as a key reason why visitors will spend less time in these environments or will avoid certain sites if they anticipate it will be littered (Anderson and Brown, 1984; Ballance et al., 2000; Tudor and Williams, 2006; WHO, 2003).”
Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings—entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions (2009, unknown): “As a consequence, wrack environments are commonly unsightly and the demands of local authorities to ‘clean up the mess’ are frequent and can be expensive (e.g. Ryan & Swanepoel 1996; Ballance et al. 2000).”