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DOI	10.1038/s41893-021-00722-6
	Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean
	González-Fernández D.; Cózar A.; Hanke G.; Viejo J.; Morales-Caselles C.; Bakiu R.; Barceló D.; Bessa F.; Bruge A.; Cabrera M.; Castro-Jiménez J.; Constant M.; Crosti R.; Galletti Y.; Kideys A.E.; Machitadze N.; Pereira de Brito J.; Pogojeva M.; Ratola N.; Rigueira J.; Rojo-Nieto E.; Savenko O.; Schöneich-Argent R.I.; Siedlewicz G.; Suaria G.; Tourgeli M.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	474
结束页码	483
卷号	4 期号:6
英文摘要	Riverine systems act as converging pathways for discarded litter within drainage basins, becoming key elements in gauging the transfer of mismanaged waste into the ocean. However, riverine litter data are scarce and biased towards microplastics, generally lacking information about larger items. Based on the first ever database of riverine floating macrolitter across Europe, we have estimated that between 307 and 925 million litter items are released annually from Europe into the ocean. The plastic fraction represented 82% of the observed litter, mainly fragments and single-use items (that is, bottles, packaging and bags). Our modelled estimates show that a major portion of the total litter loading is routed through small-sized drainage basins (<100 km2), indicating the relevance of small rivers, streams and coastal run-off. Moreover, the major contribution of high-income countries to the macrolitter inputs suggests that reducing ocean pollution cannot be achieved only by improving waste management, but also requires changing consumption habits and behaviour to curb waste generation at source. The inability of countries with well-developed recovery systems to control the leakage of waste into the environment further supports the need to regulate the production and use of plastic on a global scale. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Catchments; Marine pollution; Oceanography; Plastics industry; River pollution; Consumption habit; Global scale; Key elements; Microplastics; Recovery systems; Riverine systems; Small rivers; Waste generation; Waste management
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249780
作者单位	Departamento de Biología, Instituto Universitario de Investigación Marina, University of Cádiz and European University of the Seas, Puerto Real, Spain; Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy; Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Agricultural University of Tirana, Tirane, Albania; Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA-CERCA), University of Girona, Girona, Spain; Water and Soil Research Group, Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Life Sciences, MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; Surfrider Foundation Europe, Biarritz, France; Paisaje Limpio Association, Majadahonda, Spain; Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Aix Marseille University, University of Toulon, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France; Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia UMR CNRS 5110, Perpignan, France; BIO-SOST, ...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	González-Fernández D.,Cózar A.,Hanke G.,et al. Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean[J],2021,4(6).
APA	González-Fernández D..,Cózar A..,Hanke G..,Viejo J..,Morales-Caselles C..,...&Tourgeli M..(2021).Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean.Nature Sustainability,4(6).
MLA	González-Fernández D.,et al."Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean".Nature Sustainability 4.6(2021).