Table 1 Yearly emission in items/year and in t/y based on 2018 observations.

From: Seasonality of riverine macroplastic transport

Mean hourly

emission

[n = 578]

Annual

transport

[floating]

Mass per particle

Annual

transport

[0–0.5 m]

Vertical

distribution

upper 1.3 m

Annual transport

[0–1.3 m]

Fraction

upper 1.3 m

Annual transport [total]

5.7 × 103 items/h

5.0 × 107 items/y

1.9 × 10−2 kg/item

9.5 × 102 t/y

88.1% [0–0.5 m]

7.2% [0.5–0.9 m]

4.7% [0.9–1.3 m]

1.1 × 103 t/y

66–79%

1.4–1.6 × 103 t/y