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Pollution of oceans by plastics and microplastics

Authors: François GALGANI, Stéphane BRUZAUD, Guillaume DUFLOS, Pascale FABRE, Emmanuelle GASTALDI, Jeff GHIGLIONE, Régis GRIMAUD, Matthieu GEORGE, Arnaud HUVET, Fabienne LAGARDE, Ika PAUL-PONT, Alexandra TER HALLE

Publication date: January 10, 2020, Review date: September 2, 2020

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1. Importance of plastic at sea

1.1 Sources

Plastics and microplastics enter the environment at all stages of the polymer life cycle. At sea, they mainly come from continental inputs which include rivers (figure 1 ), water treatment effluents and their overflows, coastal recreational activities, illegal landfills on or near rivers, and run-off (figure...

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