Lebreton, Laurent

Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans: more than 5 trillion plastic pieces weighing over 250,000 tons afloat at sea

Eriksen, M., Lebreton, L. C. M., Carson, H. S., Thiel, M., Moore, C. J., Borerro, J. C., Galgani, F., Ryan, P. G., & Reisser, J. (2014) · PLoS ONE

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionOil Spill Detection and Mitigation

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River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans

Lebreton, L. C. M., van der Zwet, J., Damsteeg, J.-W., Slat, B., Andrady, A., & Reisser, J. (2017) · Nature Communications

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionWaste Management and Recycling

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Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

Borrelle, S. B., Ringma, J., Law, K. L., Monnahan, C. C., Lebreton, L., McGivern, A., Murphy, E., Jambeck, J., Leonard, G. H., Hilleary, M. A., et al. (2020) · Science

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionWaste Management and Recycling

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Future Scenarios of Global Plastic Waste Generation and Disposal

Lebreton, L., & Andrady, A. (2019) · Palgrave Communications

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionMunicipal Solid Waste Management

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Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

Lebreton, L., Slat, B., Ferrari, F., Sainte-Rose, B., Aitken, J., Marthouse, R., Hajbane, S., Cunsolo, S., Schwarz, A., Levivier, A., et al. (2018) · Scientific Reports

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionOil Spill Detection and Mitigation

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A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

van Sebille, E., Wilcox, C., Lebreton, L., Maximenko, N., Hardesty, B. D., van Franeker, J. A., Eriksen, M., Siegel, D., Galgani, F., & Law, K. L. (2015) · Environmental Research Letters

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionOil Spill Detection and Mitigation

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The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

van Sebille, E., Aliani, S., Law, K. L., Maximenko, N., Alsina, J. M., Bagaev, A., Bergmann, M., Chapron, B., Chubarenko, I., Cózar, A., et al. (2020) · Environmental Research Letters

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionOil Spill Detection and Mitigation

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A global mass budget for positively buoyant macroplastic debris in the ocean

Lebreton, L., Egger, M., & Slat, B. (2019) · Scientific Reports

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionOil Spill Detection and Mitigation

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Using Numerical Model Simulations to Improve the Understanding of Micro-plastic Distribution and Pathways in the Marine Environment

Hardesty, B. D., Harari, J., Isobe, A., Lebreton, L., Maximenko, N., Potemra, J., van Sebille, E., Vethaak, A. D., & Wilcox, C. (2017) · Frontiers in Marine Science

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