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Lost but can't be neglected: Huge quantities of small microplastics hide in the South China Sea

Minggang Cai, Haixia He, Mengyang Liu, Siwei Li, Guowen Tang, Weimin Wang, Peng Huang, Wei Ge, Yan Lin, Bin Chen,

The Science of The Total Environment · 2018 · 336 citations · 64 references

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Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

Jenna Jambeck, Roland Geyer, Chris Wilcox et al. · Science · 2015 · 12.7K citations

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Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic?

Richard C. Thompson, Ylva S. Olsen, Richard P. Mitchell et al. · Science · 2004 · 7.5K citations

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Accumulation of Microplastic on Shorelines Woldwide: Sources and Sinks

Mark A. Oakley Browne, Phillip Crump, S. J. Niven et al. · Environmental Science & Technology · 2011 · 4.6K citations

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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

Marcus Eriksen, Laurent Lebreton, Henry S. Carson et al. · PLoS ONE · 2014 · 4.6K citations · Full text

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Plastic debris in the open ocean

Andrés Cózar, Fidel Echevarrı́a, J. Ignacio González-Gordillo et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014 · 3.1K citations · Full text

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