Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages 189-195Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.03.022
Keywords
Plastic waste; Ecosystem service; Valuation; International; Societal; Financial costs
Funding
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- Marine Ecosystems Research Programme - Natural Environment Research Council [NE/L003279/1]
- Marine Ecosystems Research Programme - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [NE/L003279/1]
- Bioavailability and biological effects of microscopic plastic debris in the ocean project - Natural Environment Research Council [NE/L003988/1]
- MARP project (MARine Plastic Pollution in the Arctic: origin, status, costs and incentives for Prevention) - Polar Research Programme (POLARPROG), The Norwegian Research Council of Norway [257584]
- NERC [pml010010, NE/L003988/1, pml010005, NE/L003279/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This research takes a holistic approach to considering the consequences of marine plastic pollution. A semi systematic literature review of 1191 data points provides the basis to determine the global ecological, social and economic impacts. An ecosystem impact analysis demonstrates that there is global evidence of impact with medium to high frequency on all subjects, with a medium to high degree of irreversibility. A novel translation of these ecological impacts into ecosystem service impacts provides evidence that all ecosystem services are impacted to some extent by the presence of marine plastic, with a reduction in provision predicted for all except one. This reduction in ecosystem service provision is evidenced to have implications for human health and wellbeing, linked particularly to fisheries, heritage and charismatic species, and recreation.
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