Plastic Pirates sample litter at rivers in Germany – Riverside litter and litter sources estimated by schoolchildren

Kiessling, Tim; Knickmeier, Katrin; Kruse, Katrin; Brennecke, Dennis; Nauendorf, Alice; Thiel, Martín

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2018.11.025

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“…Riparian ecotones, as the main interface between terrestrial and freshwater systems, are obvious locations for plastic transfer and storage. Recent studies have used citizen science techniques to quantify the levels of macroplastic litter along riverbanks and riparian zones, observing an average of 0.54 ± 1.2 litter items/m 2 across Germany (Kiessling et al, ). Riparian zones likely provide temporally variable effects on the storage and transfer of plastic pollution.…”

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A catchment‐scale perspective of plastic pollution

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Global Change Biology

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Plastic pollution is distributed across the globe, but compared with marine environments, there is only rudimentary understanding of the distribution and effects of plastics in other ecosystems. Here, we review the transport and effects of plastics across terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. We focus on hydrological catchments as well‐defined landscape units that provide an integrating scale at which plastic pollution can be investigated and managed. Diverse processes are responsible for the observed ubiquity of plastic pollution, but sources, fluxes and sinks in river catchments are poorly quantified. Early indications are that rivers are hotspots of plastic pollution, supporting some of the highest recorded concentrations. River systems are also likely pivotal conduits for plastic transport among the terrestrial, floodplain, riparian, benthic and transitional ecosystems with which they connect. Although ecological effects of micro‐ and nanoplastics might arise through a variety of physical and chemical mechanisms, consensus and understanding of their nature, severity and scale are restricted. Furthermore, while individual‐level effects are often graphically represented in public media, knowledge of the extent and severity of the impacts of plastic at population, community and ecosystem levels is limited. Given the potential social, ecological and economic consequences, we call for more comprehensive investigations of plastic pollution in ecosystems to guide effective management action and risk assessment. This is reliant on (a) expanding research to quantify sources, sinks, fluxes and fates of plastics in catchments and transitional waters both independently as a major transport routes to marine ecosystems, (b) improving environmentally relevant dose–response relationships for different organisms and effect pathways, (c) scaling up from studies on individual organisms to populations and ecosystems, where individual effects are shown to cause harm and; (d) improving biomonitoring through developing ecologically relevant metrics based on contemporary plastic research.

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Section: Fluxes Of Plastics Through Hydrological Catchmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A catchment‐scale perspective of plastic pollution

Windsor

Durance

Horton

et al. 2019

Global Change Biology

293

147

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“…Natural transport can be caused by wind or rainfall-driven surface runoff (Bruge et al, 2018). Direct dumping can include illegal dumping sites (Rech et al, 2015;Mihai, 2018) and unintentional disposal at recreational locations, such as river banks (Kiessling et al 2019). Once in a river, plastic transport and accumulation is influenced by hydrological (water level, flow velocity, discharge) and anthropogenic factors (hydraulic infrastructure, cleanup activities, navigation).…”

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“…However, identity-based classification methods are at risk of having too many classification categories. This could make it more difficult for volunteers to do the research, which leads to some methods reducing the amount of item categories (Kiessling et al, 2019).…”

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“…The second category covers protocols that only characterize macro sized litter (e.g. Kiessling et al, 2019). And last, the protocols that examine both macro and micro sized litter (e.g.…”

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“…For this, we first chose the Plastic Pirates project developed and reported by Kiessling et al (2019). This method is similar since it also characterizes both macro-and microlitter on riverbanks with the use of citizen science.…”

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Plastic Pirates sample litter at rivers in Germany – Riverside litter and litter sources estimated by schoolchildren

Cited by 133 publications

References 48 publications

A catchment‐scale perspective of plastic pollution

A catchment‐scale perspective of plastic pollution

An evaluation of the River-OSPAR method for quantifying macrolitter on Dutch riverbanks

Investigating sustainability tensions and resolution strategies in the plastic food packaging industry—A paradox theory approach

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