Chengjun Sun

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that polyvinyl chloride, polypropylene, polyethylene, polyamides and polyformaldehyde could adsorb lead, copper and cadmium in the simulating solution, and the heavy metals showed higher adsorbance on PVC and PP particles compared with PA, PE and POM.

TL;DR: Both the abundance and types of microplastics show positive correlations between the seawater and sediment samples, and microplastic polymer types in the bay showed close match to the polymertypes in the estuaries.

TL;DR: This study shows microplastics are abundant in these coral reef systems and they are captured by fish or "trapped" by corals.

TL;DR: High-throughput sequencing was applied to investigate the successional stages of microbial communities attached to polypropylene and polyvinyl chloride microplastics exposed for one year in the coastal seawater of China to elucidate the long-term changes in the community composition of microorganisms that colonize microplastic and expand the understanding of plastisphere microbial communities present in the marine environment.

TL;DR: In this article, microplastic in the digestive systems of four locally cultured bivalve species (scallop Chlamys farreri, mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis, oyster Crassostrea gigas, and clam Ruditapes philippinarum) in Qingdao, China, were analyzed and detected in 233 out of 587 samples (80%) over four seasons.