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FIGURE 1 Map of study area at Eagle Island, Rivers State, Nigeria.
FIGURE 2 Experimental design of accumulated plastic waste deposition in (a) 55.8m × 42.6m () area at Eagle Island, Niger Delta, Nigeria. The picture indicates the site where the plastic waste was deposited by the in flowing river. It shows waste heaps of different circumference (b) pictorial view of the study plot captured by DJI Spark drone at Eagle Island, Nigeria Delta.
FIGURE 3 Seedling growth experiments indicating (a) boxplot of seedling growth in control versus plastic soils and bar chart of (b) weekly seeding growth in height (cm), (c) no. of leaves and (d) growth of two mangrove species (R.mangle and R.racemosa ) of mangrove seedling in control and plastic soils at Eagle Island, Nigeria.. where W-1 to W-7 means weeks one to seven and Y-1 means one year.
FIGURE 4 Microbial population in (a) surface and sub- surface soil and (b) different gradients in plastic waste accumulated site at Eagle Island, Niger Delta, Nigeria. The farther from the accumulated plastic waste the higher the microbial population.
FIGURE 5 Correlation of seedling growth versus nutrient (a) and heavy metal concentrations (b) at Eagle Island, Niger Delta Nigeria.