FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI An inshore–offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter BT AF Morales-Caselles, Carmen Viejo, Josué Martí, Elisa González-Fernández, Daniel Pragnell-Raasch, Hannah González-Gordillo, J. Ignacio Montero, Enrique Arroyo, Gonzalo M. Hanke, Georg Salvo, Vanessa S. Basurko, Oihane C. Mallos, Nicholas Lebreton, Laurent Echevarría, Fidel van Emmerik, Tim Duarte, Carlos M. Gálvez, José A. van Sebille, Erik Galgani, Francois García, Carlos M Ross, Peter S. Bartual, Ana Ioakeimidis, Christos Markalain, Gorka Isobe, Atsuhiko Cózar, Andrés AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:2;6:1;7:3;8:1;9:4;10:5;11:6;12:7;13:8;14:1;15:9;16:10;17:1;18:11;19:12;20:1,13;21:;22:1;23:14;24:1;25:15;26:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:;14:;15:;16:;17:;18:;19:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPAC;20:;21:;22:;23:;24:;25:;26:; C1 Departamento de Biología, University of Cadiz and European University of the Seas (SEA-EU), Instituto Universitario de Investigación Marina (INMAR), Puerto Real, Spain Project Aware, Dive Against Debris, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Asociación Proyecto Ecopuertos, Cádiz, Spain European Commission Joint Research Centre, Directorate D – Sustainable Resources, European Commission, Ispra, Italy Posidonia Green Project, Barcelona, Spain AZTI Marine Research, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Pasaia, Spain Ocean Conservancy, Portland, OR, USA The Ocean Cleanup, Rotterdam, Netherlands Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands Red Sea Research Centre (RSRC) and Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands IFREMER (French Institute for Research and Exploitation of the Sea), Immeuble Agostini, Z.I. Furiani, Bastia, France Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada UNEP/ Mediterranean Action Plan, Barcelona Convention Secretariat, Athens, Greece Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan C2 UNIV CADIZ, SPAIN PROJECT AWARE, AUSTRALIA ASOCIACION PROYECTO ECOPUERTOS, SPAIN JRC, ITALY POSIDONIA GREEN PROJECT, SPAIN AZTI, SPAIN OCEAN CONSERVANCY, USA THE OCEAN CLEANUP, NETHERLANDS UNIV WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS KAUST, SAUDI ARABIA UNIV UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA UNEP, GREECE UNIV KYUSHU, JAPAN SI CORSE SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPAC IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-europe copubli-int-hors-europe IF 27.157 TC 141 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00700/81230/85530.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00700/81230/85531.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00700/81230/85532.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00700/81230/85533.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00700/81230/85534.xlsx LA English DT Article CR INTERNATIONAL BOTTOM TRAWL SURVEY (IBTS) AB The surge of research on marine litter is generating important information on its inputs, distribution and impacts, but data on the nature and origin of the litter remain scattered. Here, we harmonize worldwide litter-type inventories across seven major aquatic environments and find that a set of plastic items from take-out food and beverages largely dominates global litter, followed by those resulting from fishing activities. Compositional differences between environments point to a trend for litter to be trapped in nearshore areas so that land-sourced plastic is released to the open ocean, predominantly as small plastic fragments. The world differences in the composition of the nearshore litter sink reflected socioeconomic drivers, with a reduced relative weight of single-use items in high-income countries. Overall, this study helps inform urgently needed actions to manage the production, use and fate of the most polluting human-made items on our planet, but the challenge remains substantial. PY 2021 PD JUL SO Nature Sustainability SN 2398-9629 PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL 4 IS 6 UT 000663029500006 BP 484 EP 493 DI 10.1038/s41893-021-00720-8 ID 81230 ER EF