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Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions
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The sources and global distribution of microplastics in the environment, the fate and impact on marine biota, especially the food chain are described and the control measures discussed are those mapped out by both national and international environmental organizations for combating the impact from microplastic pollution.About:
This article is published in Environment International.The article was published on 2017-05-01. It has received 1487 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microplastics.read more
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Significant decline of Daphnia magna population biomass due to microplastic exposure.
TL;DR: Results indicate that exposure to microplastics can result in significant adverse effects on the population of D. magna, including a reduction in the number of individuals as well as total biomass, which can potentially impact the functioning of the ecosystem.
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Suspended microplastics in a highly polluted bay: Abundance, size, and availability for mesozooplankton.
TL;DR: In Guanabara Bay, microplastics were available, but too diluted to be frequently ingested by fish larvae and chaetognaths, and the abundance of microplastic abundance was higher than that in other marine ecosystems.
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Microplastics in seawater and zooplankton: A case study from Terengganu estuary and offshore waters, Malaysia.
Zakaria Daoud Taha,Roswati Md Amin,Sabiqah Tuan Anuar,Ammar Arif Abdul Nasser,Erqa Shazira Sohaimi +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated microplastic distribution in the surface water and the potential ingestion of microplastics in selected taxonomic groups of zooplankton from the Terengganu Estuary to offshore waters, Malaysia.
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Experimental investigation on gasification characteristics of polycarbonate (PC) microplastics in supercritical water
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of different operating conditions (temperature, time, feedstock concentration, pressure) on gasification performance were discussed, and the experimental results showed that the increase in gasification temperature and time enhanced the cracking reaction and free radical reaction of the microplastics to increase the gasification efficiency.
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Pelagic microplastics in surface water of the Eastern Indian Ocean during monsoon transition period: Abundance, distribution, and characteristics.
TL;DR: This first study to obtained comprehensive and comparable baseline data about MPs in the Eastern Indian Ocean, including abundance, spatial distribution and characteristics, shows that MP pollution in the EIO is among the highest of the world's oceans.
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Microplastics in the marine environment
TL;DR: The mechanisms of generation and potential impacts of microplastics in the ocean environment are discussed, and the increasing levels of plastic pollution of the oceans are understood, it is important to better understand the impact of microPlastic in the Ocean food web.
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Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments.
TL;DR: Global plastics production and the accumulation of plastic waste are documented, showing that trends in mega- and macro-plastic accumulation rates are no longer uniformly increasing and that the average size of plastic particles in the environment seems to be decreasing.
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Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: a review.
TL;DR: Ingestion of microplastics has been demonstrated in a range of marine organisms, a process which may facilitate the transfer of chemical additives or hydrophobic waterborne pollutants to biota.
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Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Methods Used for Identification and Quantification
TL;DR: This review of 68 studies compares the methodologies used for the identification and quantification of microplastics from the marine environment and suggests standardized sampling procedures which allow the spatiotemporal comparison ofmicroplastic abundance across marine environments.
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Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea
Marcus Eriksen,Laurent Lebreton,Henry S. Carson,Martin Thiel,Charles J. Moore,Jose C. Borerro,François Galgani,Peter G. Ryan,Julia Reisser +8 more
TL;DR: The total number of plastic particles and their weight floating in the world's oceans is estimated from 24 expeditions across all five sub-tropical gyres, costal Australia, Bay of Bengal and the Mediterranean Sea conducting surface net tows and visual survey transects of large plastic debris.