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The missing ocean plastic sink: Gone with the rivers

Published:2021-07-02 Issue:6550 Volume:373 Page:107-111
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Weiss Lisa¹^ORCID,Ludwig Wolfgang¹^ORCID,Heussner Serge¹^ORCID,Canals Miquel²^ORCID,Ghiglione Jean-François³^ORCID,Estournel Claude⁴^ORCID,Constant Mel¹^ORCID,Kerhervé Philippe¹

Affiliation:

1. CEFREM, UMR 5110 University of Perpignan–CNRS, F-66860 Perpignan Cedex, France.

2. CRG Marine Geosciences, Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics, University of Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain.

3. LOMIC, UMR 7621 Sorbonne University–CNRS, F-66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France.

4. LEGOS, UMR 5566 University Toulouse III–CNRS/CNES/IRD/UPS, F-31400 Toulouse, France.

Abstract

No missing sink Estimates of the flux of microplastics from rivers, in the context of the mass of plastic that has been observed in the ocean, have made it appear that a large, unidentified sink of plastics must exist there. Weiss et al. show that there may not be a missing sink after all. By reformulating how mass fluxes are calculated from observations of particle numbers, they demonstrate that those mass fluxes were overestimated by two to three orders of magnitude. This explains why the residence time of plastics in the ocean seemed so puzzlingly short and implies that ocean plastics may persist and degrade over longer periods than previously thought. Science , abe0290, this issue p. 107

Funder

Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation

Université de Perpignan Via Domitia

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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