Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings—entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions

By M. Gregory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Pollution

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Adsorption of trace metals to plastic resin pellets in the marine environment. (2012, background): “In addition to their aesthetic impacts, plastics in the marine environment pose a direct threat to animals by accumulation, entrapment, entanglement, choking and suffocation (Ryan, 1987; Boren et al., 2006; Browne et al., 2008; Gregory, 2009).”
Plastic Degradation and Its Environmental Implications with Special Reference to Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (2012, background): “Juvenile animals in particular often become entangled in plastic debris, which can result in serious injury as the animal grows [2,3], not to mention restriction of movement, preventing animals from properly feeding and, in the case of mammals, breathing [4].”
Microplastics in freshwater systems: a review of the emerging threats, identification of knowledge gaps and prioritisation of research needs. (2015, background): “…organisms, ingestion of large plastic items may cause choking, internal or external wounds, ulcerating sores, blocked digestive tracts, false sense of satiation, impaired feeding capacity, starvation, debilitation, limited predator avoidance, or death (Gregory, 2009; Gall and Thompson, 2015).”
Rafting on abiotic substrata: properties of floating items and their influence on community succession (2011, background): “…or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisher Mar Ecol Prog Ser 439: 1–17, 2011 substrata of anthropogenic origin are reason for concern because they might result in a drastic shift of dis persal opportunities on these long-lasting floating objects (Gregory 2009).”
Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments. (2013, background): “The sea floor is considered as a sink for much of the marine plastics (Goldberg, 1997), but the mechanisms by which these materials reach the deep sea floor, however, are still poorly understood (Gregory, 2009).”
Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment (2009, background): “Given the impacts of plastic litter (Gregory 2009), considerable effort has been made to remove waste plastic and other persistent debris from the environment.”