Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments.

By L. Van Cauwenberghe, A. Vanreusel, J. Mees, Colin R. Janssen. Environmental Pollution, 2013

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• Microbial enzymes for the recycling of recalcitrant petroleum‐based plastics: how far are we? (2017, background): “These are often hydrophobic compounds with a high affinity to microplastics, thereby entering the food chains when microplastics are ingested by marine wildlife (Andrady, 2011, 2015e; Van Cauwenberghe et al., 2013; Law and Thompson, 2014).”
• Plastic debris in the open ocean (2014, background): “The abundance of nano-scale plastic particles has still not been quantified in the ocean (9), and the measurements of microplastic in deep ocean are very scarce, although available observations point to a significant abundance of microplastic particles in deep sediments (38), which invokes a mechani”
• Deleterious Effects of Litter on Marine Life (2015, background): “A peak of plastic ingestion was detected in 1985 and 1995 in a number of long-term studies (Moser and Lee 1992; Robards et al. 1995; Spear et al. 1995; Mrosovsky et al. 2009; Van Franeker et al. 2011).”
• Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects. (2015, methodology): “Liebezeit et al. (2012) and Imhof et al. (2013) 199 extracted microplastics from sediments using zinc chloride (ZnCl2, 1.5 – 1.7 g.cm -³), while others 200 (Dekiff et al., 2014; Van Cauwenberghe et al., 2013a; Van Cauwenberghe et al., 2013b) used a sodium 201 iodide (NaI, 1.6 – 1.8 g.cm-³) solution.”
• Marine litter, future prospects for research (2015, background): “Alternatively, aggregate microparticles in organic matter (i.e., marine snow) may be a route to deep sea sediment (Van Cauwenberghe et al., 2013), although the presence of microplastics in aggregates remains to be demonstrated.”