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Exposure of coastal environments to river-sourced plastic pollution
P.T. Harris et al., Science of the Total Environment - Elsevier Plastics & Pollution
The paper, written by scientists at GRID-Arendal and the University of Bergen, is the first global assessment of coastal environments’ exposure to river-borne plastic pollution. The majority of plastic waste carried to sea by rivers ends up trapped along coastlines, but some types of coastal environments trap much more plastic than others. The researchers overlayed maps of coastal ecosystems with the most current information on the input of river-borne plastic to sea to find out which coastal environments have the potential to be most affected by plastic pollution originating on land.
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