River corridors are global hotspots of microplastic pollution, exceeding the amount of plastics found in the world’s oceans
Stefan Krause1,2, Holly Nel3, Jennifer D Drummond4, Jesus D Gomez-Velez5, Iseult Lynch3, Gregory Sambrook Smith3 and Anna Kukkola3, (1)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (2)University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LEHNA - Laboratory of Ecology of Natural and Man-Impacted Hydrosystems, Lyon, France, (3)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (4)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (5)Vanderbilt University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nashville, TN, United States