Study of plastic pollution and its potential sources on Gran Canaria Island beaches (Canary Islands, Spain)

Rapp, Jorge; Herrera, Alicia; Martínez, Ico; Raymond, Eugenio; Santana, Ángel Rodríguez

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.110967

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“…The hospitality industry makes significant contributions to local economies creating employment and investment prospects, but rapid growth has been a major cause of many adverse environmental issues [30,32]. In addition, according to many studies [33][34][35][36], pollution in the coastal environment is a serious and an important issue for many tourist destinations due to the massive tourist activities. Rangel-Buitrago et al [33] mentioned that the distribution of plastics, and their relative negative effects, have been documented in all coastal and marine environments.…”

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“…Rangel-Buitrago et al [33] mentioned that the distribution of plastics, and their relative negative effects, have been documented in all coastal and marine environments. Rapp et al [34] declared that large quantities of exogenous plastics waste had been recently detected in the Canary Islands due to illegal dumping at sea. Moreover, the pressure in the coastal zones [34] is mostly affected by the citizen density, which has a direct consequence on waste accumulation.…”

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“…Rapp et al [34] declared that large quantities of exogenous plastics waste had been recently detected in the Canary Islands due to illegal dumping at sea. Moreover, the pressure in the coastal zones [34] is mostly affected by the citizen density, which has a direct consequence on waste accumulation. Paler et al [35] concluded that marine litter in coastal areas is a global problem, as it has also affected coastal areas in the Philippines.…”

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Measuring the Level of Environmental Performance on Coastal Environment before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study from Cyprus

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Tourism activities are considered, among others, the backbone of the local economies. However, tourism activities lead to adverse environmental impacts, especially in coastal zones. Coastal areas are considered and recognized as of strategic importance due to the fact that several activities take place, from leisure to business. At the same time, coastal areas are under pressure from tourist activities, and the waste generated is a very serious issue. Therefore, there are limited studies related to the environmental dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the coastal environment. This paper provides answers to the hypothesis that the pandemic lockdown scenario would improve environmental performance due to reduced usage and, therefore, waste, taking into account specific key performance indicators (KPIs) as these KPIs are used to evaluate the performance of an area. The results showed that the study area improved, as did the selected KPIs, i.e., clean coast index (CCI), waste accumulation rate (WAR), and waste accumulation index (WAI). Additionally, according to the final results, the concentration of micro-, meso- and macroplastics on the beach reduced, and the main issues remained the solutions on cigarette butts, straws, and other plastic containers. Furthermore, the final results are considered very useful to local authorities, stakeholders, consultants, policymakers, and any other competent authorities, to reschedule their waste management strategies, to improve waste infrastructures and their level of services (LOS), as well as, to suggest frequent awareness-raising activities to their visitors on how to protect the coastal environment, taking into account a pandemic scenario, as well as, the policy alternative impacts on EU coastal zones 2000–2050.

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“…Del mismo modo, se han encontrado MP en sedimentos de Reino Unido (Thompson et al, 2004), Singapur (Ng y Obbard, 2006), Suecia (Norén, 2007), Bélgica (Claessens et al, 2011;Van Cauwenberghe et al, 2013a), Italia (Vianello et al, 2013), Alemania (Dekiff et al, 2014) y España (Bayo et al, 2019), entre muchos otros. Eriksen et al (2014) estimaron que 5,25 billones de partículas de residuos plásticos flotan en la superficie del mar, y durante su migración oceánica, esta basura flotante tiende hacia los márgenes oceánicos (Rapp et al, 2020), haciendo que en las costas de todo el mundo se encuentre un gran número de macróplásticos y microplásticos (Nguyen et al, 2020). El foco de este problema reside generalmente en actividades antropogénicas, originadas tanto en interior como en el mar (Ryan et al, 2009).…”

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“…La concentración en sedimentos de playas varía notablemente entre las distintas investigaciones publicadas, debido, entre otras razones, a la falta de métodos de muestreo estandarizados y a un acuerdo en cuanto a unidades para expresar los datos. Así, se suceden datos como los publicados por Dekiff et al (2014), con 2,3 MP/kg de sedimento en la isla de Nordeney en Alemania, Qiu et al (2015) Por otro lado, las fibras suponen la forma mayoritaría (Lo et al, 2018;Aslam et al, 2020) siendo, por tanto, los MP secundarios los más comunes en sedimentos de playas (Barnes et al, 2009;Stolte et al, 2015;Villiers, 2018;Filgueiras et al, 2019;Godoy et al, 2020b;Rapp et al, 2020).…”

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Presencia y evolución de microplásticos en estaciones depuradoras de aguas residuales de la Región de Murcia: propuesta de las mejores tecnologías disponibles para una emisión cero

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The global figures for annual plastic production have increased by 2.5% during the 2018/19 period, with packaging sector being the largest consumer of this product. These figures reflect that plastics are part of our daily life, providing comfort to our way of life.Likewise, and due to an inadequate management of plastic waste, a slow degradation rate and an uncontrolled use of plastic by general consumers, it has become one of the main environmental problems, aggravated by their degradation into microparticles, known as microplastics (MP).MP refer to plastics with a size smaller than 5 mm; being able to be classified in primary MP, intentionally released with that size, and secondary MP, coming from a continuous fragmentation of bigger plastics. These emerging pollutants have been isolated in different environments, and they accumulate through the food web, posing physical and toxicological problems.Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), defined as a set of physical, biological and chemical processes, in charge of achieving a high quality effluent, have been considered a source and sink of MP; the concentration and characterization of these in wastewater being investigated, especially in recent years. This PhD analyzes the presence and evolution of microplastics in the WWTP "Cabezo Beaza", "Águilas", "Mar Menor Sur" and "La Aljorra" WWTPs, located in the Region of Murcia (Spain). It also aims to add knowledge about the removal efficiency of MP by different sewage treatment technologies. Wastewater samples were vacuum filtered and, when required, previously treated with a salt-saturated NaCl solution.Identification was carried out with a trinocular stereomicroscope and Fourier transform infrared spectrometry.

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Study of plastic pollution and its potential sources on Gran Canaria Island beaches (Canary Islands, Spain)

Cited by 38 publications

References 29 publications

Measuring the Level of Environmental Performance on Coastal Environment before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study from Cyprus

Measuring the Level of Environmental Performance on Coastal Environment before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study from Cyprus

Presencia y evolución de microplásticos en estaciones depuradoras de aguas residuales de la Región de Murcia: propuesta de las mejores tecnologías disponibles para una emisión cero

Advanced Detection Techniques for Microplastics in Different Environmental Media

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