Data & References
Chicago beach and lakefront
Most of the contaminants( ~81%) were fragments. Within this category, plastic, glass, Styrofoam, and metal were most prominent. These are the materials that were most detected by Eve, and later collected by Wall-E.
Lazcano, R. F., Vincent, A. E. S., & Hoellein, T. J. (2020). Trash Dance: Anthropogenic Litter and Organic Matter Co-Accumulate on Urban Beaches. Geosciences, 10(9), 335. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10090335
Great lakes beach front
Most of the contaminants (small AL) consisted of 70% glass and 30% styrofoam, metal, and plastic. This was found to be true on urban beaches along the great lakes. These closely reflected the types of contaminants found on chicago beaches.
Vincent, A. E. S., & Hoellein, T. J. (2017). Anthropogenic Litter Abundance and Accumulation Rates Point to Seasonal Litter Sources on a Great Lakes Beach. Wiley online library. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2017.03241.x
