{"id":31120,"date":"2014-09-17T21:44:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T19:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/2014\/09\/17\/floating-debris-in-the-mediterranean-sea-2\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T21:29:10","slug":"floating-debris-in-the-mediterranean-sea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/research-en\/2014\/floating-debris-in-the-mediterranean-sea-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating debris in the Mediterranean Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Giuseppe Suaria, Stefano Aliani, Floating debris in the Mediterranean\nSea, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 86, Issues 1?2, 15 September\n2014, Pages 494-504, ISSN 0025-326X,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2014.06.025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2014.06.025<\/a>.\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0025326X14004056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0025326X14004056<\/a>)\nAbstract: Results from the first large-scale survey of floating natural\n(NMD) and anthropogenic (AMD) debris (&gt;2 cm) in the central and western\npart of the Mediterranean Sea are reported. Floating debris was found\nthroughout the entire study area with densities ranging from 0 to 194.6\nitems\/km2 and mean abundances of 24.9 AMD items\/km2 and 6.9 NMD\nitems\/km2 across all surveyed locations. On the whole, 78% of all\nsighted objects were of anthropogenic origin, 95.6% of which were\npetrochemical derivatives (i.e. plastic and styrofoam). Maximum AMD\ndensities (&gt;52 items\/km2) were found in the Adriatic Sea and in the\nAlgerian basin, while the lowest densities (&lt;6.3 items\/km2) were\nobserved in the Central Tyrrhenian and in the Sicilian Sea. All the\nother areas had mean densities ranging from 10.9 to 30.7 items\/km2.\nAccording to our calculations, more than 62 million macro-litter items\nare currently floating on the surface of the whole Mediterranean basin.\nKeywords: Marine litter; Floating debris; Mediterranean; Plastic pollution<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giuseppe Suaria, Stefano Aliani, Floating debris in the Mediterranean Sea, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 86, Issues 1?2, 15 September 2014, Pages 494-504, ISSN 0025-326X, http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2014.06.025. (http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0025326X14004056) Abstract: Results from the first large-scale survey of floating natural (NMD) and anthropogenic (AMD) debris (&gt;2 cm) in the central and western part of the Mediterranean Sea are reported. Floating debris was found throughout the entire study area with densities ranging from 0 to 194.6 items\/km2 and mean abundances of 24.9 AMD items\/km2 and 6.9 NMD items\/km2 across all surveyed locations. On the whole, 78% of all sighted objects were of anthropogenic origin, 95.6% of which were petrochemical derivatives (i.e. plastic and styrofoam). Maximum AMD densities (&gt;52 items\/km2) were found in the Adriatic Sea and in the Algerian basin, while the lowest densities (&lt;6.3 items\/km2) were observed in the Central Tyrrhenian and in the Sicilian Sea. All the other areas had mean densities ranging from 10.9 to 30.7 items\/km2. According to our calculations, more than 62 million macro-litter items are currently floating on the surface of the whole Mediterranean basin. Keywords: Marine litter; Floating debris; Mediterranean; Plastic pollution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504,3452,3423],"tags":[1309,2438,1587,3606],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Floating debris in the Mediterranean Sea - One Earth - One Ocean e. V.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/research-en\/2014\/floating-debris-in-the-mediterranean-sea-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Floating debris in the Mediterranean Sea - One Earth - One Ocean e. 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