Marine debris in beaches of the Southwestern Atlantic: An assessment of their abundance and mass at different spatial scales in northern coastal Argentina

Becherucci, María Eugenia; Rosenthal, Alan; Pon, Juan Pablo Seco

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.04.030

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“…Hardesty et al (2016) also found high debris densities near cities. Becherucci et al (2017) evaluated the presence of litter on beaches at two locations on the Argentine coast, and noted that the largest proportion of litter occurred on beaches with greater use; according to the results, the amount and composition of the litter were reflections of the recreational use of the beaches. However, Porto de Galinhas presented the largest amount among all beaches, although it belonged to group 2 (medium level of urbanization).…”

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“…Despite interviewing people that do not usually admit to littering on the beach, they observed that smokers usually leave their cigarette butts in the sand without much concern. Worldwide, the majority of sandy public beaches in tourist areas are also littered with cigarette butts (Novotny and Slaughter, 2014;Scisciolo et al, 2016;Becherucci et al, 2017). According to the International Coastal Cleanup program, which was conducted in 2016, 504,583 volunteers collected 13,840,398 items, of which 1,863,838 were cigarette butts (Ocean Conservancy, 2017) 1 .…”

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Anthropogenic Litter on Beaches With Different Levels of Development and Use: A Snapshot of a Coast in Pernambuco (Brazil)

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Anthropogenic Litter on Beaches With Different Levels of Development and Use: A Snapshot of a Coast in Pernambuco (Brazil)

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“…(Barnes et al, 2018), beaches(e.g. (Becherucci et al, 2017)), surface waters (e.g. (Colton et al, 1974, Collins, Hermes, 2019) and deep seas(e.g.…”

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The Seafloor Marine Debris on the North and the Central Part Of The Moroccan Atlantic Waters From Tangier (35° n) to Sidi Ifni (29° n): Composition, Abundance, Spatial Distribution, Sources and Movement

Rhinane

Houssa

Loulad

2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. The accumulation of human debris in the marine ecosystem is one of the main hidden negative impacts of the economic and social development that humanity has witnessed after industrialization era which comes accompanied with the evolution of productions, the consumerism, as well as the emergence of the throw-away culture. In this paper, we studied the marine debris pollution on the seafloor of the North and Central Moroccan Atlantic waters from Tangier (35° N) to Sidi Ifni(29° N). The data were collected during two scientific trawling surveys conducted aboard the Charif Elidrissi Vessel in February–March 2015 and March 2018. The prospection operations allowed to collect a total of 329 kg of Seafloor Marine Debris (SMD) with an average abundance ranging between 16.84 ± 20 kg/km2 to 30.15 ± 43 kg/km2. The plastic materials represented the higher percentage of collected items with more than 40% followed by textile debris which mainly composed of knotted fishing ropes used by the longliners in the area. The analysis of SMD composition and their Spatio-temporal pattern combined with the environmental and socio-economic parameters of the prospected area using GIS tools showed that the majority of collected items comes from fishing activities, and the rest comes from the coastal anthropogenic activities. Then the analysis of hydrodynamic properties of the area using AVISO data showed that the horizontal current in area that controls the exchange of water from the coastal area to the ocean interior plays a major role in scattering debris in this area far from their origins to the open ocean.

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“…2,54% The impacts of presence of litter in the summer months have already been reported in several beaches around the world, such as in Brazil (Silva et al, 2016, China (Pervez et al, 2020), Chile (Hidalgo-Ruz et al, 2018;Gómez et al, 2020), Taiwan (Chen and Chen, 2020), Argentina (Becherucci et al, 2017) and Spain (Asensio-Montesinos et al, 2019).…”

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Evaluation of the environmental perception of the users over solid residues on the beach of Tamandaré/Brazil

Miranda

Barreto

Silva³

et al. 2021

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The irregular waste disposal is a reality that affects the Brazilian coast. The present study aimed to evaluate the environmental perception of beach users in relation to the production and disposal of solid waste at Tamandaré beach - Brazil. It was applied a questionnaire and carried out a quali-quantitative collection that has shown that the impacts mostly pointed out were the damage to the environment, and loss of tourist potential. The main source of dispersion of waste on the Tamandaré shore is associated with land-based activities, mainly those arising from tourism. The main causes were the failure in the municipal cleaning system, and beach users lack of awareness on disposing solid waste. It was suggest implementing environmental education programs, infrastructure improvement, and the elaboration of public policies pertinent to the management of solid waste, with the purposes of protection and conservation of natural resources.

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Marine debris in beaches of the Southwestern Atlantic: An assessment of their abundance and mass at different spatial scales in northern coastal Argentina

Cited by 64 publications

References 60 publications

Anthropogenic Litter on Beaches With Different Levels of Development and Use: A Snapshot of a Coast in Pernambuco (Brazil)

Anthropogenic Litter on Beaches With Different Levels of Development and Use: A Snapshot of a Coast in Pernambuco (Brazil)

The Seafloor Marine Debris on the North and the Central Part Of The Moroccan Atlantic Waters From Tangier (35° n) to Sidi Ifni (29° n): Composition, Abundance, Spatial Distribution, Sources and Movement

Evaluation of the environmental perception of the users over solid residues on the beach of Tamandaré/Brazil

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