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„Almost all plastic in the ocean comes from just 10 rivers - 30.11.2017”. DW.COM. Приступљено 22. 8. 2018. „about 90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world's oceans gets flushed through just 10 rivers: The Yangtze, the Indus, Yellow River, Hai River, the Nile, the Ganges, Pearl River, Amur River, the Niger, and the Mekong (in that order).”
Schmidt, Christian; Krauth, Tobias; Wagner, Stephan (11. 10. 2017). „Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea”. Environmental Science & Technology. American Chemical Society (ACS). 51 (21): 12246—12253. ISSN0013-936X. doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b02368.