Assessing the citizen science approach as tool to increase awareness on the marine litter problem

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 · 4.5K citations · Full text

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

Citizen Science as an Ecological Research Tool: Challenges and Benefits

Janis L. Dickinson, Benjamin Zuckerberg, David N. Bonter · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2010 · 1.9K citations

Landscape Processes, Biodiversity, Engineering +12

A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

Erik van Sebille, Chris Wilcox, Laurent Lebreton et al. · Environmental Research Letters · 2015 · 1.6K citations · Full text

Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in marine sediments along the Belgian coast

M. Claessens, Steven De Meester, Lieve Van Landuyt et al. · Marine Pollution Bulletin · 2011 · 1.4K citations

Microplastics, Belgian Coast, Marine Sediments +9