Study: River Maas contained as many as 84,000 plastic objects per hour during flood

During the 2021 flood, over one hundred times the normal volume of plastic waste was carried through the river Maas. Researchers counted up to 84,000 plastic objects per hour in the Maas. This is revealed in a publication by Wageningen hydrologists that appeared in Nature Water today. Most of the plastic was not carried to the North Sea but was deposited in the flood plains.