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Locations in the Mediterranean where beaching and sinking of plastic particles are expected to occur, calculated over 2006–2016. Beaching fluxes are given for the coastal grid boxes (1/16 by 1/16°); hence, no assumptions are made about coastal segment lengths or widths (i.e. coastal lengths contained in the grid boxes will vary, the map does not represent fluxes per stretch of beach in kg/km/day directly).
