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Daniele Trogu, Simone Simeone, Andrea Ruju, Marco Porta, Angelo Ibba and Sandro DeMuro
This paper investigates the dynamics of the cross-shore extensions of banquettes, a sedimentary structure mostly made by rests of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile, in a sandy urban beach located in the Gulf of Cagliari, Italy, western Mediterranean. A vide...
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Francisco Asensio-Montesinos, Milagrosa Oliva Ramírez, María Teresa Aguilar-Torrelo and Giorgio Anfuso
Litter on beaches is one of the most difficult problems in coastal management and every year, much efforts and public money are invested to try to alleviate and solve the problem. Cigarette butts (CB) are among the most widespread abandoned personal item...
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Manuela Piccardo, Francesca Provenza, Serena Anselmi, Andrea Broccoli, Antonio Terlizzi and Monia Renzi
Cigarette butts (CBs) are among the dominant constituents of marine and beach litter. Few studies have been conducted, and the environmental effects of CBs on marine species are still poorly understood. This study aims to evaluate the ecotoxicological ef...
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Xuehua Ma, Yi Zhou, Luyi Yang and Jianfeng Tong
Rapid development of the economy increased marine litter around Zhoushan Island. Social-ecological scenario studies can help to develop strategies to adapt to such change. To investigate the present situation of marine litter pollution, a stratified rand...
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Svetlana Pakhomova, Igor Zhdanov and Bert van Bavel
Plastic pollution in the marine environment has turned into an important research topic in recent decades. Until recently, studies were often based on visual assessment only, which is not enough to draw any conclusion about the chemical nature of found p...
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Raúl F. Lazcano, Anna E. S. Vincent and Timothy J. Hoellein
Anthropogenic litter (i.e., trash, AL) on beaches has negative ecological and economic impacts. Beach AL is likely moved together with coarse particulate organic matter (CPOM, algae, leaves), but no previous studies have assessed AL and CPOM co-distribut...
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Marine litter poses numerous threats to the global environment. To estimate the social costs of marine litter in China, two stated preference methods, namely the contingent valuation model (CVM) and the choice experiment model (CEM), were used in this re...
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Andrea de Lima Oliveira,Lucas Barbosa,Rita Monteiro Camargo,Marina Santana,Fabiana Moreira,Alexander Turra
The objective of this work was to engage students from public schools of São Paulo coast (Brazil) in the study and control of litter on beaches. Two public schools from coastal cities of São Paulo State (Peruíbe and Ubatuba) had students trained to sampl...
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Thomas E. Novotny, Kristen Lum, Elizabeth Smith, Vivian Wang and Richard Barnes
Discarded cigarette butts are a form of non-biodegradable litter. Carried as runoff from streets to drains, to rivers, and ultimately to the ocean and its beaches, cigarette filters are the single most collected item in international beach cleanups each ...
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