S. Endo’s scientific contributions

... Health impacts of stranded material could derive also from the chemicals acquired from seawater and then transferred to the sand (i.e., polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). Information on chemicals accumulation in stranded material is widely underexplored and limited to plastic resin pellets (small 10 -50 mm granules; Takada et al. 2012). Moreover, the studies on human health risk from exposure to chemical-contaminated sand are limited to beaches impacted by oil spills (Black et al. 2016;Altomare et al., 2021), therefore after the occurrence of extreme contamination events. ...

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Original Articles Beach pollution from marine litter: Analysis with the DPSIR framework (driver, pressure, state, impact, response) in Tuscany, Italy