{"id":547596,"date":"2025-06-09T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=547596"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:21:56","slug":"plastic-waste-from-africa-reaches-ceara-by-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/plastic-waste-from-africa-reaches-ceara-by-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic waste from Africa reaches Cear\u00e1 by sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_547601\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-547601 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-lixo-plastico-2024-11-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-lixo-plastico-2024-11-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-lixo-plastico-2024-11-800-250x174.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-lixo-plastico-2024-11-800-700x487.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-lixo-plastico-2024-11-800-120x83.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Luoman\u2009\/\u2009Getty Images<\/span>Plastic packaging, objects, and fragments can travel long distances by water<span class=\"media-credits\">Luoman\u2009\/\u2009Getty Images<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 11 visits to three beaches in November 2022, researchers from the Federal University of Cear\u00e1 (UFC) collected 1,062 plastic items (plastic bottle caps, cosmetic packaging, and food pots) weighing a total of 9.7 kilograms (kg). The majority (70.4% of the items) showed only moderate degradation, with identifiable brands and logos. An analysis of these brands indicated that most of the items came from Africa (78.5%), with the rest from Brazil (15.7%) and other nations (5.8%). Among the African products, 31 brands and 31 companies were identified, mainly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (over 90%), but also from Ivory Coast, South Africa, Cameroon, Angola, Nigeria, and Ghana. Simulations of ocean winds and currents supported the conclusion that the plastics originated from the west coast of Africa and that the Congo River, which flows into the sea, could be the main source of the plastic waste arriving on Brazil\u2019s beaches (<em>Science of The Total Environment<\/em>, December).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most plastic waste collected on beaches in Cear\u00e1 came from Africa","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[200],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-547596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547606,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547596\/revisions\/547606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547596"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=547596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}