Plastic debris forms: Rock analogues emerging from marine pollution Continuous input of plastic litter in ocean and coastal environments achieved alarming levels that are exposing new settings in natural systems. While…

Plastic is beginning to form rock-like #materials!

Fernanda Avelar Santos & team document #plastic “rock” types on an outcrop on #Trindade Island. Synthetic rocks shaped by humans as depositional and post-depositional agents!

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River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans - Nature Communications Rivers provide a major pathway for ocean plastic waste, but effective mitigation is dependent on a quantification of active sources. Here, the authors present a global model of riverine plastic inputs...

Lebreton's classic 2017 paper “River #plastic emissions to the world’s oceans” shows a snapshot of how bad the problem already was... now nearly 10 years ago!

Have we met this challenge, or has #river #pollution become worse?

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