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Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Toxicology, Pollution and the Environment
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1480391
This article is part of the Research Topic Contributions to River Plastic Monitoring Across Scales - Volume II View all 5 articles

Do riverine garbage patches exist?

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
  • 2 Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Keywords: Plastic pollution, riverine garbage patches, Litter management, plastic hotspot areas, Plastic accumulation

    Received: 13 Aug 2024; Accepted: 01 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Gallitelli and Liro. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Luca Gallitelli, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

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