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Plastics and microplastics in the oceans: From emerging pollutants to emerged threat
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Investigations on temporal trends, geographical distribution and global cycle of plastics have management implications when defining the origin, possible drifting tracks and ecological consequences of such pollution, and the fate and impact of microplastics in the marine environment are still far to be fully clarified.About:
This article is published in Marine Environmental Research.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 789 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microplastics & Plastic pollution.read more
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Future scenarios of global plastic waste generation and disposal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented projections of global MPW generation at 1'km resolution from now to 2060, showing that the future MPW load will continue to be disproportionately high in African and Asian continents even in the future years.
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Marine microplastic debris: An emerging issue for food security, food safety and human health.
Luís Gabriel Antão Barboza,Luís Gabriel Antão Barboza,A. Dick Vethaak,Beatriz R.B.O. Lavorante,Anne-Katrine Lundebye,Lúcia Guilhermino +5 more
TL;DR: In this brief review, the evidence of seafood contamination by microplastics is reviewed, and the potential consequences of the presence of microplastic in the marine environment for human food security, food safety and health are discussed.
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Marine litter plastics and microplastics and their toxic chemicals components: the need for urgent preventive measures
Frederic Gallo,Cristina Fossi,Roland Weber,David Santillo,João Borges de Sousa,Imogen Ingram,Angel Nadal,Dolores Romano +7 more
TL;DR: This document was prepared by a working group of Regional Centres of the Stockholm and Basel Conventions to be a background document for discussion in the 2017 Conference of the Parties of the Basel Convention on hazardous wastes and the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.
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Identification of microplastics using Raman spectroscopy: Latest developments and future prospects.
TL;DR: A showcase of interesting and easily available solutions that contribute to faster and better identification of microplastics using Raman spectroscopy and non-conventional Raman techniques (non-linear Raman, hyperspectral imaging, standoff Raman) which permit more advanced applications such as real-time Raman detection and imaging of micro Plastics.
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Microplastics pollution in different aquatic environments and biota: A review of recent studies
Shahabaldin Rezania,Junboum Park,Mohd Fadhil Md Din,Shazwin Mat Taib,Amirreza Talaiekhozani,Krishna Kumar Yadav,Hesam Kamyab +6 more
TL;DR: This work comprehensively reviewed the occurrence and distribution of MPs pollution in both marine and freshwater environments, including rivers, lakes and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), and proposed the development of new techniques for sampling MPs in aquatic environments and biota.
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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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Lost at sea: where is all the plastic?
Richard C. Thompson,Ylva S. Olsen,Richard P. Mitchell,Anthony Davis,Steven J. Rowland,Anthony W. G. John,Daniel F. McGonigle,Andrea E. Russell +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that microscopic plastic fragments and fibers are also widespread in the marine environment and may persist for centuries.
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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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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.