Law, Kara Lavender

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

Geyer, R., Jambeck, J. R., & Law, K. L. (2017) · Science Advances

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionRecycling and Waste Management Techniques

Cited by 18,606

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

Jambeck, J. R., Geyer, R., Wilcox, C., Siegler, T. R., Perryman, M., Andrady, A., Narayan, R., & Law, K. L. (2015) · Science

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionWaste Management and Recycling

Cited by 13,163

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

Cited by 3,219

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

Cited by 1,713

Microplastics in the seas

Law, K. L., & Thompson, R. C. (2014) · Science

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionPharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts

Cited by 1,471

Plastic accumulation in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre

Law, K. L., Morét-Ferguson, S., Maximenko, N. A., Proskurowski, G., Peacock, E. E., Hafner, J., & Reddy, C. M. (2010) · Science

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionOil Spill Detection and Mitigation

Cited by 1,377

Plastics in the Marine Environment

Law, K. L. (2017) · Annual Review of Marine Science

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionOil Spill Detection and Mitigation

Cited by 1,059

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

Cited by 982

The effect of wind mixing on the vertical distribution of buoyant plastic debris

Kukulka, T., Proskurowski, G., Morét‐Ferguson, S., Meyer, D. W., & Law, K. L. (2012) · Geophysical Research Letters

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionOil Spill Detection and Mitigation

Cited by 713

The United States’ contribution of plastic waste to land and ocean

Law, K. L., Starr, N., Siegler, T. R., Jambeck, J. R., Mallos, N. J., & Leonard, G. H. (2020) · Science Advances

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionWaste Management and Recycling

Cited by 525

All is not lost: deriving a top-down mass budget of plastic at sea

Koelmans, A. A., Kooi, M., Law, K. L., & van Sebille, E. (2017) · Environmental Research Letters

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionMarine Plankton and Biogeochemistry

Cited by 396

Passive buoyant tracers in the ocean surface boundary layer: 2. Observations and simulations of microplastic marine debris

Brunner, K., Kukulka, T., Proskurowski, G., & Law, K. L. (2015) · Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionOcean Waves and Remote Sensing

Cited by 87

Untangling the chemical complexity of plastics to improve life cycle outcomes

Law, K. L., Sobkowicz, M. J., Shaver, M. P., & Hahn, M. E. (2024) · Nature Reviews Materials

Microplastics and Plastic PollutionPolymer Science and PVC

Cited by 78