[HTML][HTML] Numerical plastic transport modelling in fluvial systems: Review and formulation of boundary conditions

C Wickramarachchi, R Niven, M Kramer - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, it has become clear that plastic pollution poses a significant threat to aquatic
environments and human health. Rivers act as entry points for land-based plastic waste …

Map** Microplastic Movement: A Phase Diagram to Predict Nonbuoyant Microplastic Modes of Transport at the Particle Scale

H Al-Zawaidah, M Kooi, T Hoitink… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Microplastics pose numerous threats to aquatic environments, yet understanding their
transport mechanisms remains limited. Drawing from natural sediment research provides …

[HTML][HTML] Biofouling changes the settling dynamics of macroplastic plates

J Lofty, C Wilson, P Ouro - Communications Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Plastic pollution transported in rivers remains poorly understood due to the diversity of
shapes, sizes, and densities of plastics, as well as their complex interactions with biofilms …

Urban Flood Drifters (UFDs): Onset of movement

D Valero, A Bayón, MJ Franca - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite their catastrophic implications in flood events, the mobilization and transport of
large, loose objects–termed Urban Flood Drifters (UFDs)–are often overlooked in flood …

Plastic Material Identification and Categorization by Applying Convolutional Neural Network

V Raviprabhakaran - … on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Plastic litter is the foremost ecological problem of our era. The local distribution of plastic
items is currently poorly segregated, which hinders efforts to reduce negative effects and …

Plastic as a Sediment–A Universal and Objective practical solution to growing ambiguity in plastic litter classification schemes

CE Russell, F Pohl, R Fernández - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The universal and growing challenge of inconsistency and ambiguity in plastic classification
schemes restricts our ability to predict plastic routing, degradation, and accumulation in all …