Decision support framework for plastic clean-up technologies in rivers and estuaries: minimizing unintentional bycatch while maintaining efficient plastic removal under realistic environmental conditions. Ghent University
Plastic pollution is ubiquitous throughout the environment, and its potentially hazardous effects have become of great concern in past years. More than 80% of the plastics enter the marine environment from land-based sources via rivers. To prevent plastic litter from reaching the marine environment, where it spreads rapidly and it is difficult to extract a posteriori, more than thirty plastic clean-up technologies are commercially available ...