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Okhotkina, V. E., Ya Yu Blinovskaya, M. V. Vysotskaya, and O. G. Chernysh. "Sources of Ingress and Distribution of Marine Litter Along the Coast of Primorsky Krai." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 988, no. 4 (2022): 042062. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/988/4/042062.

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Abstract The World Ocean pollution with production and consumption waste is one of the hottest global environmental problems of today. The term “marine litter” has already become firmly established in the scientific use, and in both Russian and world research literature it is defined as any manufactured or processed material, directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally left in the marine environment. It is plastics and its elements that account for a considerable share of marine litter. Research on the pollution of the beaches of Primorsky Krai. with marine litter been carried out

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Kaandorp, Mikael L. A., Stefanie L. Ypma, Marijke Boonstra, Henk A. Dijkstra, and Erik van Sebille. "Using machine learning and beach cleanup data to explain litter quantities along the Dutch North Sea coast." Ocean Science 18, no. 1 (2022): 269–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-18-269-2022.

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Abstract. Coastlines potentially harbor a large part of litter entering the oceans, such as plastic waste. The relative importance of the physical processes that influence the beaching of litter is still relatively unknown. Here, we investigate the beaching of litter by analyzing a data set of litter gathered along the Dutch North Sea coast during extensive beach cleanup efforts between the years 2014 and 2019. This data set is unique in the sense that data are gathered consistently over various years by many volunteers (a total of 14 000) on beaches that are quite similar in substrate (sandy)

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Chiba, Tomoyo, and Kairi Kataoka. "Impacts and Challenges of Volunteer Efforts in Marine Litter Cleanup." Journal of the Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management 35 (2024): 128–42. https://doi.org/10.3985/jjsmcwm.35.128.

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Bartolotta, Jill, and Susan Bixler. "Plastic Pollution Awareness and Prevention Program for Coastal Businesses." Oceanography 37, no. 1 (2024): 76–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.207.

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Plastics, one type of marine debris, account for nearly 90% of beach cleanup litter collected (Surfrider Foundation, 2022), with 22 million pounds (10 million kilograms) entering the Great Lakes annually, half going into Lake Erie (Hoffman and Hittinger, 2017). Lake Erie provides drinking water for 12 million people and supports a $12.9 billion coastal tourism industry (USEPA, 2022). Plastic is hazardous to aquatic life through entanglement, ingestion, and associated contaminants (Derraik, 2002), and negatively impacts Ohio’s economy (NOAA Marine Debris Program, 2019).

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Kang, Hee Jin, Tae-Byung Chun, Haeseong Ahn, and Geun-Tae Yim. "Feasibility Study for Onboard Marine Debris Gathering and Recycling." Marine Technology Society Journal 51, no. 1 (2017): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/mtsj.51.1.4.

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AbstractIt is well known that approximately 90% of all marine debris consists of reusable plastics. Small plastic particles are easily swallowed and disturb marine ecosystems. However, cleaning up marine debris is difficult because of its economic feasibility. Though there are many proven land-based recycling processes available, the high costs of gathering marine debris and transporting it adds to marine debris-related problems. Marine debris cleanup is challenging despite various studies that point to its importance. Therefore, we discuss a recycling chain that concerns gathering, transporti

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Stagnitti, Martina, Rosaria Ester Musumeci, Luca Cavallaro, and Enrico Foti. "A NUMERICAL-BASED APPROACH TO PREDICT PLASTIC LITTER PATHWAYS IN COASTAL AREAS." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 38 (May 29, 2025): 196. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v38.management.196.

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The problem of marine plastic litter is an issue of great concern, because of the long time needed for its complete decomposition, from ten to several thousand years, and the impacts on marine ecosystems and human health (Lebreton and Andrady, 2019, Soares et al. 2020). In Europe, about 500.000 tons of plastic litter are released into the sea every year (Interreg Europe, 2021), most of which is produced inland by agricultural, industrial and urban activities, and then transported by rivers towards the sea (Lebreton and Andrady, 2019). Moreover, the COVID- 19 pandemic caused more than 25,000 to

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Ser, Junho, and Byungyun Yang. "How GeoAI Improves Tourist Beach Environments: Micro-Scale UAV Detection and Spatial Analysis of Marine Debris." Land 14, no. 7 (2025): 1349. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071349.

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With coastal tourism depending on clean beaches and litter surveys remaining manual, sparse, and costly, this study coupled centimeter-resolution UAV imagery with a Grid R-CNN detector to automate debris mapping on five beaches of Wonsan Island, Korea. Thirty-one Phantom 4 flights (0.83 cm GSD) produced 31,841 orthoimages, while 11 debris classes from the AI Hub dataset trained the model. The network reached 74.9% mAP and 78%/84.7% precision–recall while processing 2.87 images s−1 on a single RTX 3060 Ti, enabling a 6 km shoreline to be surveyed in under one hour. Georeferenced detections aggr

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Kiessling, Tim, Mandy Hinzmann, Linda Mederake, et al. "What potential does the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive have for reducing plastic pollution at coastlines and riversides? An evaluation based on citizen science data." Waste Management 164 (June 7, 2023): 106–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2023.03.042.

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Abstract: To address environmental pollution by plastic litter, the European Union adopted EU Directive 2019/904, the so called “Single-Use Plastics Directive” (SUPD), which bans several single-use plastic products and addresses additional items with measures such as extended producer responsibility and obligatory requirements for product redesign. This study assessed the potential of the SUPD to reduce litter pollution in the environment with three scenarios. The “best case” scenario assumed that all measures of the SUPD completely prevent targeted items from getting i

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Liu, Shuo-Fang, Tzu-Chieh Lee, Maggie McMillin, Yuan-Tai Li, Yun Li, and Yuan-Chin Hsu. "Using Kiln Boats to Reuse Marine Plastics." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 10, no. 4 (2022): 465. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse10040465.

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Microplastics are the biggest pollutants in marine ecosystems. Each year, over 8 million tons of plastic enter the oceans. Via microbes, microplastics may transport toxic chemicals into food webs. It is therefore important to create a way to remove microplastics and reduce the impact of microplastics on the ocean’s food web. This paper discusses the plan of using kiln firing, laser firing, pollution control, and green energy production to reuse marine plastics. We used a wood-fired kiln to design a kiln boat. The “Patch” is a large ocean area with trash. The calorific value of plastics is comp

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Corbau, Corinne, Alexandre Lazarou, and Umberto Simeoni. "Fishing-Related Plastic Pollution on Bocassette Spit (Northern Adriatic): Distribution Patterns and Stakeholder Perspectives." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13, no. 7 (2025): 1351. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13071351.

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Plastic pollution in marine environments is a globally recognized concern that poses ecological and economic threats. While 80% of plastic originates from land, 20% comes from sea-based sources like shipping and fishing. Comprehensive assessments of fishing-related plastics are limited but crucial for mitigation. This study analyzed the distribution and temporal evolution of three fishing-related items (EPS fish boxes, fragments, and buoys) along the Bocassette spit in the northern Adriatic Sea, a region with high fishing and aquaculture activity. UAV monitoring (November 2019, June/October 20

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Zhang, Ting, Liu Lin, Deqin Li, et al. "Microplastic pollution at Qilianyu, the largest green sea turtle nesting grounds in the northern South China Sea." PeerJ 10 (June 7, 2022): e13536. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13536.

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Microplastics, new persistent pollutants, have recently attracted considerable attention. When present in beach sediments, microplastics may adversely affect the nesting and hatching of sea turtles on beaches. In this study, we investigate microplastic pollution at Qilianyu (northeastern Xisha Islands), the largest known nesting ground for green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in China. We found that the average abundance of microplastics in the beach surface sediments was 338.44 ± 315.69 thousand pieces·m−3 or 1,353.78 ± 853.68 pieces·m−2, with foam and fragments as the main microplastic type id

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Gonzalez Jimenez, Martin Alejandro, Andriarimina Daniel Rakotonirina, Bruno Sainte-Rose, and David James Cox. "On the Digital Twin of the Ocean Cleanup Systems—Part I: Calibration of the Drag Coefficients of a Netted Screen in OrcaFlex Using CFD and Full-Scale Experiments." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 11, no. 10 (2023): 1943. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse11101943.

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The Ocean Cleanup introduces a Digital Twin (DT) describing the cleanup systems made of netting to extract marine litter from our oceans. It consists of two wings forming a “U-shape” and a retention zone. During operation, the system is towed and drag-driven with a span-to-length ratio of 0.6 ≤SR*≤ 0.8. The twine Reynolds number is Ret*∈[800:1600], making it experience various local drag coefficients. The DT was built with OrcaFlex (OF) aiming at: (i) avoiding over- or under-designing the system; (ii) supporting the scale-up of the system; and (iii) estimating the costs and/or the impact of ou

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Güngören, Zeynep, and Aslı Başaran. "Seasonal investigation of marine litter on beaches of Urla (Izmir/Turkey)." Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 38, no. 1 (2021): 53–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.12714/egejfas.38.1.06.

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In this study, types and quantities of marine litter in Urla (İzmir) Kum Denizi Beach and Demircili Koyu Beach were determined seasonally between October 2017 and October 2018. At the beaches, marine litter larger than 2,5 centimetres were collected with 3 people along 2-meter lines, which are determined to be parallel to the sea. The collected litters were classified according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP, 2009), quantities were determined and the pollution status of the beaches was evaluated according to the Clean Coast Index. A total of 1,265 litter from Kum Denizi Beach

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Mačić, Vesna, Nikola Đorđević, Slavica Petović, Nemanja Malovrazić, and Marija Bajković. "Typology of marine litter in "Papuča" (Slipper) cave (Montenegro, South Adriatic Sea)." Studia Marina 31, no. 2 (2018): 38–44. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2412650.

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Marine caves are endangered and protected habitat. Marine litter is a growing threat for biodiversity but unfortunately, until now there are only few data about litter in marine caves. Because of that aims of our work were to evaluate quantity and typology of the marine litter in one of the semi-submersed marine caves and to contribute to the awareness. As expected, huge majority of the litter was plastic (95.2%) while other 5 categories were present in less than 5 % (rubber 2.8%, glass 1.2%, cloths 0.6%, wood 0.2%, metal 0.1%). Peculiarity of the marine litter in this

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Bellou, Nikoleta, Chiara Gambardella, Konstantinos Karantzalos, et al. "Global assessment of innovative solutions to tackle marine litter." Nature Sustainability 4, no. 6 (2021): 516–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00726-2.

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AbstractMarine litter is one of the most relevant pollution problems that our oceans are facing today. Marine litter in our oceans is a major threat to a sustainable planet. Here, we provide a comprehensive analysis of cutting-edge solutions developed globally to prevent, monitor and clean marine litter. Prevention in this research includes only innovative solutions to prevent litter entering oceans and seas rather than interventions such as waste reduction and recycling. On the basis of extensive search and data compilation, our analysis reveals that information is dispersed across platforms

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Rusu, Cristina. "Marine plastic litter vs clean and living water." Open Access Government 44, no. 1 (2024): 372–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.56367/oag-044-11484.

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Marine plastic litter vs clean and living water Marine plastic pollution is a global crisis with increasing impacts on the environment, marine life, and human health. Multinational and national organisations are working to develop solutions that are accepted by all stakeholders connected to the marine environment and fishing industry. Marine plastic litter is harming marine ecosystems through ingestion, entanglement, and the possible release of toxic chemicals. A study from the North Sea showed that 93% of fulmar birds analysed had ingested plastic, with approximately 60% exceeding the 0.1 g l

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Ismail, N. P., C. Erüz, and F. T. Karakoç. "Public participation in beach clean-up activities to raise awareness and reduce marine litter for the protection of the Black Sea ecosystem." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1251, no. 1 (2023): 012009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1251/1/012009.

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Abstract Human activities and poor awareness are believed to be responsible for marine litter pollution. In the scope of the European Union, Cross Border Cooperation, and Black Sea Basin (EU, CBC, BSB - 785) LitOUTer Project, “Raising Public Awareness and Reducing Marine Litter for the Protection of the Black Sea Ecosystem”, beach clean-up activities have been conducted. A beach clean-up activity was conducted at the Kıyıcık Beach, Trabzon, Turkiye involved by Stakeholders, NGOs, middle to high school, university students, teachers, and lecturers. This study aims to reveal the amount of marine

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Mahmud, Md Nasim, Md Obaidur Rahman, and Roksana Jahan. "Abundance and distribution of anthropogenic marine litter in Hatiya and Nijhum Dwip Island, Bangladesh." Journal of Marine Studies 1, no. 3 (2024): 1305. http://dx.doi.org/10.29103/joms.v1i3.19198.

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Marine litter is commonly found throughout the oceans, and creates a significant threat to the marine ecosystem. The purpose of the study was to investigate the abundance and distribution of marine litter in Hatiya and Nijhum Dwip Islands, Bangladesh during the post-monsoon and to determine beach cleanliness using the clean-coast index (CCI). A 100-meter line transect was established at each beach, divided into five sections of 20 meters each and positioned perpendicular to the shoreline at the water's edge. A total of 11 types of marine litter were observed. Namar Bazar, Nijhum Dwip Sea beach

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Wyles, Kayleigh J., Sabine Pahl, Matthew Holland, and Richard C. Thompson. "Can Beach Cleans Do More Than Clean-Up Litter? Comparing Beach Cleans to Other Coastal Activities." Environment and Behavior 49, no. 5 (2016): 509–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916516649412.

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Coastal visits not only provide psychological benefits but can also contribute to the accumulation of rubbish. Volunteer beach cleans help address this issue, but may only have limited, local impact. Consequently, it is important to study any broader benefits associated with beach cleans. This article examines the well-being and educational value of beach cleans, as well as their impacts on individuals’ behavioral intentions. We conducted an experimental study that allocated students ( n = 90) to a beach cleaning, rock pooling, or walking activity. All three coastal activities were associated

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Papakonstantinou, Apostolos, Konstantinos Topouzelis, Michaela Doukari, and Olympos Andreadis. "Mapping refugee litters in the eastern coast of Lesvos using UAS, an emerging marine litter problem." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-290-2019.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In the last year, the Greek islands of the eastern Aegean Sea were the main entrance points used by refugees arriving in the EU. The crossing between Turkey and the eastern Aegean islands is carried out using mostly small inflatable boats. Additionally, wooden and plastic vessels of various sizes are abandoned at the beaches upon arrival together with other items such as life jackets, inflatable tubes, and clothing. In many cases, these boats are sunk offshore, and their wrecks litter the seabed. This new type of marine litter has overwhelmed man

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Kusumawati, Ika. "SAMPAH LAUT TANGGUNG JAWAB SIAPA? STUDI KASUS KABUPATEN ACEH BARAT." JURNAL PERIKANAN TROPIS 6, no. 2 (2019): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.35308/jpt.v6i2.2183.

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Marine litter is solid material that has been used by people and abandoned or discarded into sewage, river, sea or marine environment. Debris problem in coastal area becomes the urgent issue and concerns many countries across the world particularly marine countries such as Indonesia. The research objective is to examine people perception towards marine litter in Aceh Barat Regency about whom responsible for eradicating marine debris. Researchers conduct the study in January to June 2018 and collect data by distributing questionnaire to 383 respondents. The result shows that 46.2% respondents b

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Souza Filho, José R. Souza, Antônio A. S. Chagas, Iracema R. Silva, Junia K. Guimarães, Tania E. Sakanaka, and Gerson Fernandino. "Litter Reduction during Beach Closure in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Quantifying the Impact of Users on Beach Litter Generation." Sustainability 15, no. 3 (2023): 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15032009.

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This study aimed to quantify marine litter before and during the COVID pandemic found on urban touristic beaches closed to beachgoer access in northeastern Brazil. Litter identification and quantification was conducted during April, June, and August 2019, when 3583 items were sampled, and replicated during the same months in 2020, when access to the beaches studied was prohibited and a significant reduction in the amount of litter was found, 1812 items (49% decrease). Transects were used to monitor and classify litter according to its source, namely: autochthonous (litter that was locally disc

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Zhang, Xinyu, Daqi Zhu, and Wenyang Gan. "YOLOv7t-CEBC Network for Underwater Litter Detection." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 12, no. 4 (2024): 524. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse12040524.

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The issue of marine litter has been an important concern for marine environmental protection for a long time, especially underwater litter. It is not only challenging to clean up, but its prolonged presence underwater can cause damage to marine ecosystems and biodiversity. This has led to underwater robots equipped with powerful visual detection algorithms becoming the mainstream alternative to human labor for cleaning up underwater litter. This study proposes an enhanced underwater litter detection algorithm, YOLOv7t-CEBC, based on YOLOv7-tiny, to assist underwater robots in target identifica

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Battawi, Abdullah, Ellie Mallon, Anthony Vedral, Eric Sparks, Junfeng Ma, and Mohammad Marufuzzaman. "In-Stream Marine Litter Collection Device Location Determination Using Bayesian Network." Sustainability 14, no. 10 (2022): 6147. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14106147.

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Increased generation of waste, production of plastics, and poor environmental stewardship has led to an increase in floating litter. Significant efforts have been dedicated to mitigating this globally relevant issue. Depending on the location of floating litter, removal methods would vary, but usually include manual cleanups by volunteers or workers, use of heavy machinery to rake or sweep litter off beaches or roads, or passive litter collection traps. In the open ocean or streams, a common passive technique is to use booms and a collection receptacle to trap floating litter. These passive tr

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Manullang, Corry Yanti, Wempi Barends, Dominggus Polnaya, Ahmad Soamole, and Irwan Rehalat. "Marine Litter and Grading of the Coastal Areas of Ambon Bay, Indonesia." Omni-Akuatika 17, no. 2 (2021): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.20884/1.oa.2021.17.1.903.

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The coastal is frequently impacted by marine litter that damages marine wildlife and causes economic loss to fishing and maritime industries. In this study, we described the quantity of marine litter in the inner and outer of Ambon Bay. The Sampling was carried out in September 2017. The beach litter sampling was handled by the line transect method combined with the quadrant method in 8 sites; the observation of floating litter was conducted manually with boat sampling and visual observation in a seven-line trajectory. About 2359 items of coastal litter were found in seven sites in Ambon Bay w

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Panwanitdumrong, Kansinee, and Chung-Ling Chen. "Are Tourists Willing to Pay for a Marine Litter-Free Coastal Attraction to Achieve Tourism Sustainability? Case Study of Libong Island, Thailand." Sustainability 14, no. 8 (2022): 4808. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14084808.

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Coastal areas around the world are under increasing environmental pressures from marine litter. In particular, tourism in coastal tourist areas suffers with waste littering on the coast, as well as in the water. Therefore, substantial costs are required for the handling of marine litter in order to achieve sustainable development in the tourism sector. The introduction of an entrance fee as an economic tool is a feasible way to provide alternative financing, in addition to limited government funding. The objective of this study was to estimate tourists’ willingness to pay (WTP) for visiting a

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Buoninsegni, Joana, Giorgio Anfuso, Francisco Asensio-Montesinos, Elena Marrocchino, and Carmela Vaccaro. "The Seasonal and Cross-Shore Distribution of Beach Litter Along Four Sites on the Northern Adriatic Coast (Ferrara, Italy)." Water 17, no. 15 (2025): 2173. https://doi.org/10.3390/w17152173.

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This study investigated the presence and distribution of macrolitter along four beach sites on the Ferrara coast, North-eastern Italy. At each site, monitoring campaigns were conducted from summer 2023 to summer 2024 to assess seasonal and cross-shore fluctuations of litter items and their relations with local geomorphological features. Following the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, 5627 litter items were collected, with an average density of 0.61 ± 0.23 items/m2. Plastic was the dominant material, representing 94% of the total. The Clean Coast Index (CCI) was applied to evaluate beach cle

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Kusumawati, Ika, Mita Setyowati, Agung Dharma Syakti, and Achmad Fahrudin. "Enhancing Millennial Awareness Towards Marine Litter Through Environmental Education." E3S Web of Conferences 147 (2020): 02019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202014702019.

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One of the influencing factors is the community behavior which reflected public practices in littering. Children are social capital for the community and the essential agents of social change. However, they have issues in recognizing the foundation and the explanation of the environmental problem. The research objectives; to examine millennial perception towards marine litter and the influence of environmental education towards youth perceptions in West Aceh. This study employed a survey approach by distributing questionnaires to 150 respondents from several senior high schools. The data is co

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Gavio, Brigitte, July Paulin Vargas-Llanos, and José Ernesto Mancera-Pineda. "Basura en el paraíso: desechos marinos en las playas de la isla de San Andrés, Reserva de Biosfera Seaflower, Caribe colombiano." Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras 51, no. 1 (2022): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.25268/bimc.invemar.2022.51.1.996.

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San Andres Island is one of the main touristic places in Colombia, and its main attractions are its sandy beaches and the marine coastal ecosystems, such as coral reef and seagrass beds. However improper behavior of both residents and tourists on solid residue disposal may threaten not only the aesthetic of the island ́s beaches, but also poses risk to marine life. The objective of this research was to assess the amount of litter on the main beaches of the island. We surveyed three popular beaches for ten weeks. We collected 9894 units of litter, equivalent to a weight of 23 212.47 g. Beach cl

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Ertas, Alperen, Merve Yasartürk, Ferah Sayim, and Oliyakhon Yuldashova. "Evaluation of Marine Litter Pollution Level in a Urban Beach (Aegean Coast of Izmir, Turkey)." E3S Web of Conferences 537 (2024): 03001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202453703001.

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The Agapark beach is one of the affected beach from marine litter (ML) pollution due to industrial and domestic activities. In this study, the degree of ML pollution was investigated in the beach using Clean Coast Index (CCI). The beach typology was determined according to the Bathing Area Registration and Evaluation (BARE) system. Beach litter types and characteristics were determined on the basis of the “Guide on Monitoring Marine Litter in European Seas”. In this study, a total of 1.770 items of ML were collected from Agapark beach. Plastic was the most abundant material in the beach. Mixed

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Kalina, Marc, Jonathan Kwangulero, Fathima Ali, Yared Getachew Abera, and Elizabeth Tilley. "“Where does it go?”: Perceptions and problems of riverine and marine litter amongst South Africa and Malawi’s urban poor." PLOS Water 1, no. 3 (2022): e0000013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000013.

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With the world’s oceans in crisis, citizen knowledge and awareness around riverine and marine waste has become an increasingly crucial topic of study. For most investigations, spatial analysis has centered on the coastline, or most specifically the beach, i.e., the space where most respondents (urban, Northern, middle class), encounter marine litter. Yet, by focusing on the beach as the primary space of analysis, most studies have severely limited the scope of citizens they can engage, because in many African cities it is a space of exclusion. Moreover, for individuals further upstream, in spa

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Slimane, Emna Ben, Mirco Haseler, Lilia Ben Abdallah, Fadhel Mhiri, Abdallah Nassour, and Gerald Schernewski. "Efficient Beach Litter Monitoring: Accelerated Surveys of Pollution Hotspots—A North African Case Study." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13, no. 1 (2025): 71. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13010071.

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Marine litter is a critical environmental issue, with beach litter being its most visible indicator. Despite severe pollution on Mediterranean beaches, Tunisia currently lacks a national beach litter monitoring program. To address this gap and support the development of such a program, particularly at pollution hotspots like urban beaches, we conducted a one-year study on six Tunisian beaches. We employed an innovative, accelerated multiple 10 m transect method tailored to highly polluted beaches, focusing on macro-litter (>2.5 cm). This method significantly reduces survey time compared to

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Ryan, Peter G., Charles J. Moore, Jan A. van Franeker, and Coleen L. Moloney. "Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364, no. 1526 (2009): 1999–2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0207.

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Plastic debris has significant environmental and economic impacts in marine systems. Monitoring is crucial to assess the efficacy of measures implemented to reduce the abundance of plastic debris, but it is complicated by large spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the amounts of plastic debris and by our limited understanding of the pathways followed by plastic debris and its long-term fate. To date, most monitoring has focused on beach surveys of stranded plastics and other litter. Infrequent surveys of the standing stock of litter on beaches provide crude estimates of debris types and abund

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Garaba, Shungudzemwoyo P., and Heidi M. Dierssen. "Hyperspectral ultraviolet to shortwave infrared characteristics of marine-harvested, washed-ashore and virgin plastics." Earth System Science Data 12, no. 1 (2020): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-77-2020.

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Abstract. Combating the imminent environmental problems associated with plastic litter requires a synergy of monitoring strategies, clean-up efforts, policymaking and interdisciplinary scientific research. Lately, remote sensing technologies have been evolving into a complementary monitoring strategy that might have future applications in the operational detection and tracking of plastic litter at repeated intervals covering wide geospatial areas. We therefore present a dataset of Lambertian-equivalent spectral reflectance measurements from the ultraviolet (UV, 350 nm) to shortwave infrared (S

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Shen, Manhong, Di Mao, Huiming Xie, and Chuanzhong Li. "The Social Costs of Marine Litter along the East China Sea: Evidence from Ten Coastal Scenic Spots of Zhejiang Province, China." Sustainability 11, no. 6 (2019): 1807. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11061807.

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Marine litter poses numerous threats to the global environment. To estimate the social costs of marine litter in China, two stated preference methods, namely the contingent valuation model (CVM) and the choice experiment model (CEM), were used in this research. This paper conducted surveys at ten different beaches along the East China Sea in Zhejiang province in October 2017. The results indicate that approximately 74.1% of the interviewees are willing to volunteer to participate in clean-up programmes and are willing to spend 1.5 days per month on average in their daily lives, which equates t

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Eide, Sara K. K., Linn N. Leh, Katinka S. Eines, et al. "Land cover type modulates the distribution of litter in a Nordic cultural landscape." PLOS ONE 17, no. 11 (2022): e0275463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275463.

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Litter pollution is a global environmental problem that occurs in virtually all ecosystems. Scientific research on anthropogenic litter and its environmental impacts focusses predominantly on plastics and the marine environment. Little empirical knowledge exists about the distribution and ecological impacts of litter in terrestrial environments, where most litter is produced. To start closing that knowledge gap, we investigated the distribution of litter in a cultural landscape in central Norway and in relation to land cover types. We registered and collected litter in 110 survey plots that we

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Gonçalves, Gil, Umberto Andriolo, Luísa Gonçalves, Paula Sobral, and Filipa Bessa. "Quantifying Marine Macro Litter Abundance on a Sandy Beach Using Unmanned Aerial Systems and Object-Oriented Machine Learning Methods." Remote Sensing 12, no. 16 (2020): 2599. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12162599.

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Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have recently been proven to be valuable remote sensing tools for detecting marine macro litter (MML), with the potential of supporting pollution monitoring programs on coasts. Very low altitude images, acquired with a low-cost RGB camera onboard a UAS on a sandy beach, were used to characterize the abundance of stranded macro litter. We developed an object-oriented classification strategy for automatically identifying the marine macro litter items on a UAS-based orthomosaic. A comparison is presented among three automated object-oriented machine learning (OOML)

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Ibrahim, Eldirdery Abeadallah Abdelrahman, Nahid Abdel Rahim Osman, and Omar Ali Mohamed Eisa. "Status of the Beach Litter in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Dungonab and Mukkawar Island Marine National Park in Sudan, Red Sea." International Journal of Ecology 2020 (February 12, 2020): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6904745.

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Information on marine litter in general and beach litter in particular from Sudan and to some extent from the Red Sea region is insufficient. The aim of this study is to assess the beach litter composition, distribution, and abundance in some selected beaches of the World Heritage Site of Dungonab Bay and Mukkawar Island National Park (DMNP) located in Sudan, Red Sea coast, and to examine the rate of beach litter flux and the cleanliness of its beaches in order to provide baseline information for beach litter management at DMNP. A total of 6 sites were investigated for beach litter over a 10-m

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Porcino, Nunziatina, Teresa Bottari, Francesca Falco, Sabrina Natale, and Monique Mancuso. "Posidonia Spheroids Intercepting Plastic Litter: Implications for Beach Clean-Ups." Sustainability 15, no. 22 (2023): 15740. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su152215740.

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This study represents the first assessment of plastic waste within Posidonia spheroids on four sandy, Mediterranean beaches, each characterized by varying levels of anthropogenic influence. Fifty-five (68.7%) spheroids, out of eighty examined, included plastic litter. A total of 202 plastic items were isolated. Plastic abundance was 2.5 items/spheroid corresponding to 132 items per kilogram. The length of plastic items ranged from 0.1 to 50 mm. Fibers, tangled fibers and fragments were the most common shapes. The spheroids exhibited a substantial capacity for trapping plastic waste, with notab

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Mayoma, Bahati S., Innocent S. Mjumira, Aubrery Efudala, Kristian Syberg, and Farhan R. Khan. "Collection of Anthropogenic Litter from the Shores of Lake Malawi: Characterization of Plastic Debris and the Implications of Public Involvement in the African Great Lakes." Toxics 7, no. 4 (2019): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics7040064.

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Anthropogenic debris is an environmental problem that affects beaches and coastlines worldwide. The abundance of beach debris is often documented with the use of public volunteers. To date, such community participations have been largely confined to the marine environment, but the presence and impact of anthropogenic debris on freshwater shorelines has been increasingly recognized. Our study presents the first such information from the African Great Lakes, specifically Lake Malawi. A total of 490,064 items of anthropogenic litter were collected by over 2000 volunteers in a clean-up campaign th

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Tabuenca, Bernardo, Marco Kalz, and Ansje Löhr. "Massive Open Online Education for Environmental Activism: The Worldwide Problem of Marine Litter." Sustainability 11, no. 10 (2019): 2860. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11102860.

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(1) The amount of plastic discharges in the environment has drastically increased in the last decades negatively affecting aquatic ecosystems, societies, and the world economy. The policies initiated to deal with this problem are insufficient and there is an urgency to initiate local actions based on a deep understanding of the factors involved. (2) This paper investigates the potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs) to spread environmental education. Therefore, the conclusions drawn from the implementation of a MOOC to combat the problem of marine litter in the world are presented. (3

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Simpson, Morgan David, Armando Marino, Peter de Maagt, et al. "Investigating the Backscatter of Marine Plastic Litter Using a C- and X-Band Ground Radar, during a Measurement Campaign in Deltares." Remote Sensing 15, no. 6 (2023): 1654. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15061654.

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In recent years, marine plastic pollution has seen increased coverage in the public interest and research due to a greater understanding of the scale and impact of plastic pollution within the marine environment. Considering the hazard that plastic waste poses on the environment, marine life, and on humans, remote-sensing techniques could provide timely information on their detection and dynamics. The remote sensing of marine plastic is a relatively new field and research into the capabilities of radar for detecting and monitoring marine plastic pollution is generally limited, with several int

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Agamuthu, P., SB Mehran, A. Norkhairah, and A. Norkhairiyah. "Marine debris: A review of impacts and global initiatives." Waste Management & Research 37, no. 10 (2019): 987–1002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734242x19845041.

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Marine debris, defined as any persistent manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment, has been highlighted as a contaminant of global environmental and economic concern. The five main categories of marine debris comprise of plastic, paper, metal, textile, glass and rubber. Plastics is recognised as the major constituent of marine debris, representing between 50% and 90% of the total marine debris found globally. Between 4.8 and 12.7 million metric tonnes of consumer plastics end up in the world oceans annually, resulting in

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Leow, Meng-Chew, Chan-Jin Loo, and Lee-Yeng Ong. "Data Analysis on Factors Influencing Oceanic Plastic Pollution." International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology 14, no. 6 (2024): 2106–13. https://doi.org/10.18517/ijaseit.14.6.12375.

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Oceanic pollution is a serious environmental problem that threatens the lives of marine life nowadays. One of the main reasons is that marine life accidentally eats the litter that falls into the ocean. Other pollutants included microplastics, discarded chemicals, animal carcasses, etc. According to statistics, millions of animals die annually from accidentally eating plastic. This catastrophe is caused by the higher use of plastics due to the convenience it brings to people. However, they are often thrown away after a single use, and the plastic waste ends up in the ocean due to improper disp

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Frantzi, Sofia, Roy Brouwer, Emma Watkins, et al. "Adoption and diffusion of marine litter clean-up technologies across European seas: Legal, institutional and financial drivers and barriers." Marine Pollution Bulletin 170 (September 2021): 112611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112611.

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Marei, I. C. A., F. I. E. Saleh, C. Y. Manullang, A. Soamole, and I. Rehalat. "Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in the beach sediment of Anday Beach, West Papua (Indonesia)." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 944, no. 1 (2021): 012070. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/944/1/012070.

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Abstract In the last two decades, scientists have extensively studied microplastics (MPs), small plastic pieces less than five millimeters long, which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. The MPs in the environment came from the tiny particles designed for commercial use, such as cosmetics. The other sources come from the breakdown of larger plastic items. In this study, the occurrence and distribution of MPs were investigated in the Anday Beach of West Papua (Indonesia). The sampling was conducted from March to May 2019 on Anday Beach. The abundance of MPs found were 0.28 to 1 n/kg f

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Norton, Dan R., and Danielle M. Renoud. "MANAGEMENT OF DERELICT VESSELS THAT THREATEN OUR WATERS: A PRIMER ON DERELICT VESSEL REMOVAL WITH SUCCESS STORIES." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2008, no. 1 (2008): 1081–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2008-1-1081.

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ABSTRACT Derelict vessels pose significant hazards to the communities in which they reside due to the cornucopia of oils and hazardous materials they contain including fuel oils, lubricating oils, lead-based paints, acid batteries, asbestos, and refrigerants like ammonia and Freon. Additional threats include attractions for children and vagrants, navigational hazards, and potential locations for illegally dumped oil or hazardous materials. The removal of derelict vessels is a complex undertaking due to restrictive legal authorities, ownership questions, high costs, and limited funding streams.

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Nelms, Sarah E., Lauren Eyles, Brendan J. Godley, et al. "Investigating the distribution and regional occurrence of anthropogenic litter in English marine protected areas using 25 years of citizen-science beach clean data." Environmental Pollution 263 (August 2020): 114365. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114365.

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Husrin, S., H. Hidayat, A. Rahmadya, et al. "Riverine Plastic Monitoring during the Rainy Season in the Citarum Estuary of Muara Gembong." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 950, no. 1 (2022): 012059. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/950/1/012059.

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Abstract The restoration effort to clean up the river, known as “Citarum Harum” requires monitoring to estimate both the composition and the volumes of plastic pollution. The objective of the monitoring is to obtain a scientific baseline of marine plastics from Citarum River as a function of other influencing aspects. A static net trawl (60 m x 10 m, mesh size 2.5 cm, and about 1 meter submerged) was installed under the New Muara Gembong Bridge for eight consecutive days in March and April 2021 or during the rainy season. The trapped debris was collected manually into boxes using two boats and

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Aminur Rahman, M., Shoumik Mojumdar, Sk Asif Rahman, and Kasi Marimuthu. "Plastic pollutions in the ocean: their sources, causes, effects and control measures." Journal of Biological Studies 6, no. 1 (2023): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.62400/jbs.v6i1.7755.

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Plastic pollution in the ocean is a global concern; concentrations reach 580,000 pieces/km2 and production is increasing exponentially. Plastic pollution is a widespread problem affecting the marine environment. It threatens ocean health, the healthiness of marine species, food safety and quality, human health, coastal tourism, and contributes to climate change. Given the persistent nature of plastic and its toxicity, pollution caused by plastic is a significant threat to biodiversity. It threatens ecosystems, animal and plant species, impeding their ability to deliver essential services to hu

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