Mangrove forests are recognized as plastic sequestration hotspots, particularly in urbanized areas, which may contain up to two orders of magnitude more plastic litter. Fiddler crab populations, known as ecosystem engineers, are thriving precisely in these expanding plastic‐pollution hotspots, prompting inquiry into how these creatures navigate the substantial plastic loads within sediments they have evolved to inhabit and fee...

Comprehensive methods for estimating mismanaged waste accumulation in the environment are limited, especially in the Global South, and new technologies are urgently needed. Here, we applied the Azure system, a physical floating barrier designed to retain and extract river floating waste while providing observational data of mismanaged waste, comparing results with a modeling tool that uses material flow analysis to provide est...