Functional group analysis of cigarette butts in beach sand and their association with microplastics: Bocagrande Beach, Cartagena, Colombia

• Claudia Díaz-Mendoza ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: cdiaz@utb.edu.co, cdiaz@utb.edu.co

  Affiliations Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Cartagena, Colombia, Faculty of Engineering, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3504-767X

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• Javier Mouthon-Bello,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia

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• Camilo M. Botero,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Joaquín Aarón Manjarrez Research Group, Sergio Arboleda University, Santa Marta, Colombia

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• Juan Valdelamar Villegas,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Fundación Universitaria Tecnológico Comfenalco, Cartagena, Colombia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5658-2431

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• Leonardo Gutiérrez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of the Sea and Environment, Universidad Del Pacífico, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Keydis Martinez-Villadiego

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Cartagena, Colombia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1748-5721

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