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Editorial: Impacts of marine litter

Articulación multisectorial

Comunidad científica/academia

Año de la publicación: 2019

Autor: Luisa Galgani Ricardo Beiras François Galgani Cristina Panti Angel Borja

Lugar de incidencia: Global

Región oceánica: Cosmopolita

Marine litter is a global environmental concern. Between 61% and 87% of this litter is plastics (Barboza et al., 2019; Tekman et al., 2019). In 2010 alone, the amount of plastics entering the oceans varied between 4.8 million and 12.7 million metric tons (Jambeck et al., 2015), contributing to an estimated total abundance of at least 5 trillion particles (Eriksen et al., 2014). In 2017, 348 million tons of plastics were produced globally (PlasticsEurope, 2018) and in the next two decades, the amount of plastics produced is expected to double (Geyer et al., 2017).

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