Summary
Abstract Rivers play an important role in the macroplastics transport and retention dynamics in the environment. Therefore, gaining an understanding of these processes is vital in order to help determine the fate of macroplastic in the environment. During flood events the transport of floating macroplastic is known to increase. We compared plastic accumulation and flushing on sixteen riverbanks along the Dutch Meuse river during the period that includes the July 2021 extreme flood to plastic accumulation on the same riverbanks as during normal discharge conditions between 2018 and 2021. Here we show that following the flood small macroplastic categories ( <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mo><</mml:mo> <mml:mn>2.5</mml:mn> </mml:math> cm) w
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