A5041423834- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Fatigue and fracture mechanics
- Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Animal testing and alternatives
- Algorithms and Data Compression
- Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Non-Destructive Testing Techniques
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
- Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program
2020
University of Santa Monica
2016
Marine Research Foundation
2007
Plastic pollution is ubiquitous throughout the marine environment, yet estimates of global abundance and weight floating plastics have lacked data, particularly from Southern Hemisphere remote regions. Here we report an estimate total number plastic particles their in world's oceans 24 expeditions (2007–2013) across all five sub-tropical gyres, costal Australia, Bay Bengal Mediterranean Sea conducting surface net tows (N = 680) visual survey transects large debris 891). Using oceanographic...
A mess of plastic It is not clear what strategies will be most effective in mitigating harm from the global problem pollution. Borrelle et al. and Lau discuss possible solutions their impacts. Both groups found that substantial reductions plastic-waste generation can made coming decades with immediate, concerted, vigorous action, but even best case scenario, huge quantities still accumulate environment. Science , this issue p. 1515 1455
Microplastic debris floating at the ocean surface can harm marine life. Understanding severity of this requires knowledge plastic abundance and distributions. Dozens expeditions measuring microplastics have been carried out since 1970s, but they primarily focused on North Atlantic Pacific accumulation zones, with much sparser coverage elsewhere. Here, we use largest dataset microplastic measurements assembled to date assess confidence in global estimates mass. We a rigorous statistical...
As global awareness, science, and policy interventions for plastic escalate, institutions around the world are seeking preventative strategies. Central to this is need precise time series of pollution with which we can assess whether implemented policies effective, but at present lack these data. To address need, used previously published new data on floating ocean plastics (n = 11,777 stations) create a time-series that estimates average counts mass small in surface layer from 1979 2019....
Abstract Plastic pollution is distributed patchily around the world’s oceans. Likewise, marine organisms that are vulnerable to plastic ingestion or entanglement have uneven distributions. Understanding where wildlife encounters crucial for targeting research and mitigation. Oceanic seabirds, particularly petrels, frequently ingest plastic, highly threatened, cover vast distances during foraging migration. However, spatial overlap between petrels plastics poorly understood. Here we combine...
Brand names can be used to hold plastic companies accountable for their items found polluting the environment. We data from a 5-year (2018-2022) worldwide (84 countries) program identify brands on in environment through 1576 audit events. that 50% of were unbranded, calling mandated producer reporting. The top five globally Coca-Cola Company (11%), PepsiCo (5%), Nestlé (3%), Danone and Altria (2%), accounting 24% total branded count, 56 accounted more than 50%. There was clear strong log-log...
Plastic marine debris is a global problem, but due to its widespread and patchy distribution, gathering sufficient samples for scientific research challenging with limited ship time human resources.
Plastic removal technologies can temporarily mitigate plastic accumulation at local scales, but evidence-based criteria are needed in policies to ensure that they feasible and ecological benefits outweigh the costs. To reduce pollution efficiently economically, policy should prioritize regulating reducing upstream production rather than downstream cleanup. accumulates all environments, from highest mountains deepest oceans.1Tekman M.B. Walther B.A. Peter C. Gutow L. Bergmann M. Impacts of...
SummaryPlastics are an international governance priority because of extensive and resource-intensive production, uncontrolled environmental releases, failure to control the chemicals within materials. We examine evidence that plastics have exceeded planetary safe operating space, discussing how pollution affects multiple Earth system processes along impact pathway from resource extraction production release fate impacts. Multiple lines capture complex reality these novel entities; a single...
Plastic marine pollution in the Arctic today illustrates global distribution of plastic waste all sizes traveling by wind and waves, entering food chains, presenting challenges to management mitigation. While currents move plastics from lower latitudes into Arctic, significant is also generated remote communities, as well maritime activities, such shipping, fishing tourism, which are increasing their activities seasonal sea ice diminishes. Mitigation strategies may include monitoring...
Plastics are an international governance priority because of extensive and resource-intensive production, uncontrolledenvironmental releases, failure to control the chemicals within materials. We examine theevidence that plastics have exceeded planetary safe operating space, discussing how pollutionaffects multiple Earth system processes along impact pathway from resource extraction productionto release environmental fate impacts. Multiple lines evidence capture complex reality thesenovel...