Microplastics in a Marine Environment: Review of Methods for Sampling, Processing, and Analyzing Microplastics in Water, Bottom Sediments, and Coastal Deposits

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

Jenna Jambeck, Roland Geyer, Chris Wilcox et al. · Science · 2015 · 12.2K citations

Microplastics, Coastal Management, Plastic Debris +13

Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic?

Richard C. Thompson, Ylva S. Olsen, Richard P. Mitchell et al. · Science · 2004 · 7.1K citations

Microplastics, Plastic Debris, Engineering +15

Accumulation of Microplastic on Shorelines Woldwide: Sources and Sinks

Mark A. Oakley Browne, Phillip Crump, S. J. Niven et al. · Environmental Science & Technology · 2011 · 4.5K citations

Shorelines Woldwide, Coastal Engineering, Engineering +21

Classify plastic waste as hazardous

Chelsea M. Rochman, Mark A. Oakley Browne, Benjamin S. Halpern et al. · Nature · 2013 · 1.7K citations · Full text

Engineering, Plastic Recycling, Environmental Engineering +5

Plastics on the Sargasso Sea Surface

Edward J. Carpenter, K.L. Smith · Science · 1972 · 1.6K citations

Engineering, Marine Debris, Ocean Pollution +18