About the Authors

Sarah-Jeanne Royer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sroyer@ucsd.edu (S-JR); dddeheyn@ucsd.edu (DDD)

Affiliations Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America, Center for Marine Debris Research, Hawaii Pacific University, Waimanalo, HI, United States of America

Francesco Greco

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Early Life & Environments and Department of Geology, State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Northwest University, 710069, Xi’an, China, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Michaela Kogler

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lenzing AG, Lenzing, Austria

Dimitri D. Deheyn

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sroyer@ucsd.edu (S-JR); dddeheyn@ucsd.edu (DDD)

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.