Emily E. Peacock

TL;DR: Results from 22 years of plankton tows in the North Atlantic showed the pattern of plastics accumulation was indeed as predicted by theories of ocean circulation, but, despite the steady increase in plastic production and disposal, the concentration of plastic debris had not increased and no trend in plastic concentration was observed in the region of highest accumulation.

TL;DR: Nonylphenol, bisphenol A, and PBDEs came mainly from additives and were detected at high concentrations in some fragments both from remote and urban beaches and the open ocean, suggesting that PCBs are most probably derived from legacy pollution.

TL;DR: This study reports the first inventory of physical properties of individual plastic debris in the North Atlantic collected from surface net tows on expeditions from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to the Caribbean Sea between 1991 and 2007, suggesting that plastic particles are modified during their residence at sea.

TL;DR: The first inventory of physical properties of individual plastic debris in the North Atlantic has been reported in this paper, where the authors analyzed 748 samples for size, mass, and material composition collected from surface net tows on 11 expeditions from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to the Caribbean Sea between 1991 and 2007.

TL;DR: Preliminary results from physical-chemical calculations suggest that FAMEs in biodiesel mixtures will not affect the evaporation rates of spilled petroleum hydrocarbons but may stabilize oil droplets in the water column and thereby facilitate transport.