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Plastics in the news:

New Scientific articles relating plastics at sea published on ScienceDirect.com:

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Access this URL (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569111000688)What is marine debris?
Access this URL (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X11002852)Increased plastic litter cover affects the foraging activity of ...
Access this URL (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X11000889)Marine mammals and debris in coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada
Access this URL (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X11003079)Small plastic debris changes water movement and heat transfer through sediments
Access this URL (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X11002189)Pathways of marine debris derived from trajectories of Lagrangian drifters
Access this URL (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166911000292)New perspectives in plastic biodegradation
Access this URL (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X10003267)The size, mass, and composition of plastic debris in the western North Atlantic

"Het Nieuwsblad" 01/06/2011:

Vissers vegen zee schoon:

Belgische vissers hebben de afgelopen drie jaar voor onze kust 16ton afval uit zee gehaald. Meest opmerkelijke buit: liefst 160 kilo regenlaarzen.

Fishermen are cleaning the sea: Belgian fishers have collected in 3 years 16 tonnes of waste on sea. Most remarkable trash-items: 160kg rainboots!

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Access this URL (http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=GFU3ATQK1&utm_source=nieuwsblad&utm_medium=social&utm_content=footer&utm_campaign=send-to-a-friend&utm_term=1C2UI6QP)Vissers & afval (Fishing for Litter)

www.onlineathens.com, 28/05/2011:

Phone app helps researchers track beach debris

A University of Georgia researcher is asking vacationers to take one more thing along when they head to the beach - a mobile phone application they can use to report beach debris.

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Access this URL (http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/052811/new_836060604.shtml)Phone application to track debris

movie on www.ted.com:

Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

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Access this URL (http://www.ted.com/talks/capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic.html)Capt. Charles Moore on the Seas of Plastic
Access this URL (http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/9958453/__Plastic_soep_verstikt_leven_in_zee__.html?sn=binnenland,buitenland)Plastiek soep verstikt leven in zee (De Telegraaf)
Access this URL (http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4332/Groen/article/detail/2441605/2011/06/05/Plastic-soep-verstikt-leven-in-zee.dhtml)Plastiek soep verstikt leven in zee (trouw.nl)

"news.opb.org" 23/05/2011:

Microplastics Making Their Way Through The Food Chain, Right Up To You

Photographs of strangled sea birds and suffocated sea turtles have widely publicized what happens when plastic gets into the ocean.

But what happens when that water bottle or plastic bag breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces?


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Access this URL (http://news.opb.org/article/microplastics-making-their-way-through-food-chain-right-you/)Microplastics Making Their Way Through The Food Chain, Right Up To You

"New York Times (nytimes.com)" 22/05/2011:

The peril of Plastic
For bizarre items floating in the ocean, try topping this: The upper half of a set of false teeth, seen bobbing around in the South China Sea.

“I remember thinking: ‘How on earth did it get there?”’ said Lindsay Porter, a marine scientist based in the Malaysian city of Kota Kinabalu, who spotted the item from a research vessel about 200 kilometers, or 125 miles, off China in 2009.

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Access this URL (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/business/energy-environment/23green.html?_r=1#)the peril of plastic

"Guardian.co.uk" & "hln.be" 04/05/2011:

Fishermen will be paid to catch plastic, rather than fish, under bold new plans from the EU's fisheries chief, aimed at providing fleets with an alternative source of income to reduce pressure on dwindling fish stocks.

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Access this URL (http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/2764/milieu/article/detail/1259927/2011/05/05/Europa-wil-vissers-betalen-om-plastic-te-vangen.dhtml)Europa betaalt vissers
Access this URL (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/04/eu-fishermen-catch-plastic)Europe pays fishermen

"www.seas-at-risk.org":

Marine Litter in the Millions

Shetland Islands, 20th January 2011. A new report on marine litter has highlighted a problem that not only ruins beaches and maims unsuspecting wildlife but costs governments and industry millions of Euros each year.

The report, titled “Economic Impacts of Marine Litter” and produced by KIMO International, finds that the cost of litter on coastal communities and marine industries has risen significantly in the last 10 years. In some instances the report shows that costs have risen as much as 83%, taking into account inflation, placing a totally unnecessary burden on those who live by or make their living from the sea.

Very few studies to date have explored the economic impact of marine litter as opposed to a considerable amount of research that has examined the impact of litter on beaches, marine wildlife and the build of litter across the world’s oceans.
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Access this URL (http://www.seas-at-risk.org/1mages/Economic%20impacts%20of%20marine%20litter%20KIMO.pdf)KIMO-report on marine litter
Access this URL (http://www.seas-at-risk.org/n2.php?page=368)Seas at Risk

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