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Marine transport of plastic fragments from dolly ropes used in demersal fisheries in the North Sea

Florence Marie Renée Cuttat

Dolly ropes (DR) are used in beamtrawling and other types of fishing to protect the nets from being ripped by the sea bottom. They constitute an important source of plastic pollution in the regions where this type of fishing prevails. The aim of this proje ...

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Recherche de fragments de plastique dans les sédiments profonds du Léman

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Florian Faure

A growing number of studies focusing on microplastics (plastic particles smaller than 5 mm) show this issue affects all environmental matrices and compartments, and suspicions grow as to their toxicity. In this context, the Commission Internationale pour l ...

2017

PUTTING CIRCULAR ECONOMY PRINCIPLES INTO PRACTICE

Circular economies produce virtually no waste, as materials are re-used and recycled continuously. It’s a dramatic shift from the current linear economy in which we take, make, consume and dispose – drawing regularly on natural resources to create products ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

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This paper reports on an experimental study which focuses on reproducing small scale sediment density flows in a laboratory flume. The observations are aimed at improving the parametrization of the relations that govern the transition between different pha ...

2017

Race For Water Odyssey: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Marine Plastic Debris Collected on Shorelines

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Florian Faure, Frédéric Sciacca, Clément Levasseur

With the help of the local people we met during the course of the 2015 Odyssey, the main objective, obtaining a collection of comparable data about marine plastic pollution using the NOAA internationally recognized protocol, has been achieved. It cannot be ...

Race for Water Foundation2016

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While plastic pollution in marine environments is getting better known and is the subject of a continuously growing number of publications, freshwaters still receive too little attention. Some studies worldwide focused on the nature and concentrations of m ...

2016

Everywhere around the world, a huge amount of plastics is being produced, used and treated every day. A certain amount of these plastics are badly managed and end up in the environment, where they can be problematic. The deplorable state of the ocean as we ...

2016

Sources and fate of microplastics in Swiss surface waters

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Florian Faure, Olivier Pompini

2016

Sources and Fate of Microplastics in Swiss Surface Waters

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Florian Faure, Olivier Pompini

While plastic pollution in marine environments is getting better known and is the subject of a continuously growing number of publications, fresh- waters still receive too little attention. Some studies worldwide focused on the nature and concentrations of ...

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Toxicity assessment of pollutants sorbed on microplastics using various bioassays on two fish cell lines

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Florian Faure, Frédéric Sciacca

Microplastics are tiny plastic fragments resulted from runoff and weathering breakdown of larger plastics debris. They represent an emerging concern for marine ecosystems. Microplastics impacts on aquatic life are little studied. These small particles coul ...

2016