Plastic debris in the Mediterranean Sea: Types, occurrence and distribution along Adriatic shorelines.

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Waste Management

• Publication date

  2017-09-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.05.020PMID 28529038
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