Attribution of Plastic Sources Using Bayesian Inference: Application to River-Sourced Floating Plastic in the South Atlantic Ocean
Most ct104277 marine plastic pollution originates on land.However, once plastic is at sea, it is difficult to determine its origin.Here we present a Bayesian inference framework to compute the probability that a piece of plastic found at sea came from a particular source.This framework combines information about plastic emitted by rivers with a Lag