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Articles on riverine plastic pollution

May 23, 2024

We dropped over 8,000 pieces of litter into a fake river to fight plastic pollution

James Lofty, Cardiff University; Catherine Wilson, Cardiff University, and Daniel Valero, Imperial College London

Understanding how plastic pollution moves in rivers is key to effective cleanup strategies.

October 26, 2020

Thomas Stanton, Nottingham Trent University; Matthew Johnson, University of Nottingham, and Paul Kay, University of Leeds

We need to focus on causes like overconsumption, not the material itself.

February 21, 2020

Tim van Emmerik, Wageningen University

The study also finds the weight of plastic waste from all rivers in Jakarta totals 2.1 million kilograms equivalent to 1,000 Tesla Model S cars.

Paul Kay
Associate Professor in Water Quality, University of Leeds
Tim van Emmerik
Assistant Professor Hydrologic Sensing, Wageningen University
Thomas Stanton
Axa Research Fund Fellow, Loughborough University
Matthew Johnson
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Nottingham
Catherine Wilson
Professor in Environmental Hydraulics, Cardiff University
James Lofty
PhD Candidate in Hydrodynamics, Cardiff University
Daniel Valero
Senior Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics, Imperial College London