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Bottles, bags, ropes and toothbrushes: the struggle to track ocean plastics

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Scientists know that there is a colossal amount of plastic in the oceans. But they don’t know where it all is, what it looks like or what damage it does.

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  • Daniel Cressey, 2016. "Bottles, bags, ropes and toothbrushes: the struggle to track ocean plastics," Nature, Nature, vol. 536(7616), pages 263-265, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:536:y:2016:i:7616:d:10.1038_536263a
    DOI: 10.1038/536263a
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    1. Shufen Pang & Mazlinawati Abdul Majid & Hadinnapola Appuhamilage Chintha Crishanthi Perera & Mohammad Saydul Islam Sarkar & Jia Ning & Weikang Zhai & Ran Guo & Yuncheng Deng & Haiwen Zhang, 2024. "A Systematic Review and Global Trends on Blue Carbon and Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Study from 2012 to 2023," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-31, March.
    2. Luciano Ferreira Silva & Arnoldo José Hoyos Guevara & Ernesto D. R. Santibanez Gonzalez & Paulo Sergio Gonçalves Oliveira, 2019. "Evolution toward environment sustainable behavior: search for survival in the plastic industry in Brazil," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 21(3), pages 1291-1320, June.

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