Towards a science-based metric for measuring marine plastic leakage and increasing the materiality and circularity of plastic.
Julien Boucher, Guillaume Billard, Eleonora Simeone and Joao Sousa

Towards a science-based metric for measuring marine plastic leakage and increasing the materiality and circularity of plastic.
Julien Boucher, Guillaume Billard, Eleonora Simeone and Joao Sousa
PNAS June 30, 2020 117 (26) 14618-14621; first published June 10, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2008009117
Collin P. Ward and Christopher M. Reddy
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543
27/02/2020
The Plastic Leak Project (launched in 2019), led by Quantis and EA in partnership with 35 public, private and scientific organizations, has released a methodology to conduct plastic leakage assessments.
Laying the foundation for the development of a standardised plastic footprint measurement tool
Imprint: Gland, Switzerland : IUCN, 2019
Author(s): Boucher, Julien. Dubois, Carole. Kounina, Anna. Puydarrieux, Philippe.
Organization(s): IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
Date: 2020-12-07
Programme: Industrial Ecology
Author: Bichler, Tobias (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management)
Contributor: Cucurachi, Stefano (mentor), Rutten, M.M. (mentor), van Emmerik, Tim (mentor)
Environmental Research Letters
Published 25 August 2020
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9e1e
Perspective from SCIENCE
2 Jul 2021
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj3476