Plastic litter on an urban beach---a case study in Brazil.
Waste Manag Res
; 27(1): 93-7, 2009 Feb.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19220998
Beaches are subject to solid waste contamination at the strandline. Litter depositional dynamics is influenced by specific beach morphology and sources of solid wastes. The amount of items on the strandline of Boa Viagem beach (Recife, Brazil) was evaluated during dry and rainy seasons of 2005 to characterize their sources and depositional patterns. The strandline was surveyed once a month to count and classify all visible solid waste items within a belt-transect. Plastics were used for detailed analysis of the wastes accumulated. There were quantitative, but not qualitative, differences in litter accumulation during the year and parts of the beach. The main source of debris was land-based. In general, the beach was low-polluted in the dry season and medium-polluted during the rainy season. The method is a low-cost and highly efficient characterization of solid wastes contamination of urban beaches.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Praias
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Poluição Ambiental
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Waste Manag Res
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE AMBIENTAL
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TOXICOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2009
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Reino Unido