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Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Pl... 2008 2026 2014 2020 3.3k
  1. Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea (2014)
    Marcus Eriksen, Laurent Lebreton et al. PLoS ONE
  2. Plastics, the environment and human health: current consensus and future trends (2009)
    Richard C. Thompson, Charles J. Moore et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  3. Synthetic polymers in the marine environment: A rapidly increasing, long-term threat (2008)
    Charles J. Moore Environmental Research
  4. Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment (2009)
    Peter G. Ryan, Charles J. Moore et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  5. Plastic ingestion by planktivorous fishes in the North Pacific Central Gyre (2010)
    Christiana Boerger, Gwendolyn L. Lattin et al. Marine Pollution Bulletin
  6. Our plastic age (2009)
    Richard C. Thompson, Shanna H. Swan et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  7. Persistent organic pollutants carried by synthetic polymers in the ocean environment (2007)
    Charles J. Moore, Patrik R. Jones et al. Marine Pollution Bulletin
  8. Organic micropollutants in marine plastics debris from the open ocean and remote and urban beaches (2011)
    Hideshige Takada, Rei Yamashita et al. Marine Pollution Bulletin
  9. The Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters (2016)
    Giuseppe Suaria, Carlo Giacomo Avio et al. Scientific Reports
  10. A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required (2023)
    Marcus Eriksen, Win Cowger et al. PLoS ONE

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Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea
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Charles J. Moore 10865 7537 1595 2568 28 12.3k
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Laurent Lebreton 12663 8777 1108 2875 44 14.5k
Júlia Reisser 7948 5549 701 1761 30 9.2k
Penelope K. Lindeque 13746 9565 1466 3161 76 15.8k
Matthew Cole 16463 11598 1737 3937 59 17.4k
Claudia Halsband 8821 6239 1048 2278 51 10.8k
Chelsea M. Rochman 16629 12028 2474 3712 135 18.6k
A. Dick Vethaak 9368 5301 4474 1702 134 13.3k
Stephanie Wright 8153 6012 1065 1762 31 8.7k
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