RT journal article
T1 An inshore-offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter
A1 Morales Caselles, María del Carmen
A1 Viejo Marín, Josué
A1 Martí Morales, Elisa
A1 González Fernández, Daniel
A1 Pragnell-Raasch, Hannah
A1 González Gordillo, Juan Ignacio
A1 Montero, Enrique
A1 Muñoz Arroyo, Gonzalo
A1 Hanke, Georg
A1 Salvo, Vanessa S.
A1 Basurko, Oihane C.
A1 Mallos, Nicholas
A1 Lebreton, Laurent
A1 Echevarría Navas, Fidel María
A1 van Emmerik, Tim
A1 Duarte, Carlos M.
A1 Gálvez Lorente, José Ángel
A1 van Sebille, Erik
A1 Galgani, François
A1 García Jiménez, Carlos Manuel
A1 Ross, Peter S.
A1 Bartual Magro, Ana
A1 Ioakeimidis, Christos
A1 Markalain, Gorka
A1 Isobe, Atsuhiko
A1 Cózar Cabañas, Andrés
A2 Biología
AB The surge of research on marine litter is generating important information on its inputs, distribution and impacts, but data on the nature and origin of the litter remain scattered. Here, we harmonize worldwide litter-type inventories across seven major aquatic environments and find that a set of plastic items from take-out food and beverages largely dominates global litter, followed by those resulting from fishing activities. Compositional differences between environments point to a trend for litter to be trapped in nearshore areas so that land-sourced plastic is released to the open ocean, predominantly as small plastic fragments. The world differences in the composition of the nearshore litter sink reflected socioeconomic drivers, with a reduced relative weight of single-use items in high-income countries. Overall, this study helps inform urgently needed actions to manage the production, use and fate of the most polluting human-made items on our planet, but the challenge remains substantial.Data on marine litter are scattered. Harmonizing worldwide aquatic litter inventories, this study finds global litter dominated by plastics from take-out food, followed by fishing, with litter being trapped in nearshore areas and land-sourced plastic reaching the open ocean mostly as small fragments.
PB NATURE PORTFOLIO
SN 2398-9629
YR 2021
FD 2021-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29557
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29557
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 07-nov-2026