Contributing to marine pollution by washing your face: microplastics in facial cleansers.

By Lisa Fendall, Mary A. Sewell. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2009

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution, Strategy and Management

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Microplastic ingestion by scleractinian corals (2015, background): “As microplastic debris occupies the same size range as sand grains and planktonic organisms (Fendall and Sewell 2009), it is available to a wide range of invertebrates near the base of the food chain (Browne et al. 2008).”
The present and future of microplastic pollution in the marine environment. (2014, background): “Facial cleansers that are used bymillions of people, especially in developed countries, contain PS particles (mm) that directly enter sewage systems and adjacent coastal environments (Zitko and Hanlon, 1991; Gregory, 1996; Fendall and Sewell, 2009).”
Microplastic litter composition of the Turkish territorial waters of the Mediterranean Sea, and its occurrence in the gastrointestinal tract of fish. (2017, background): “Typically these microplastic particles are marketed as ‘‘micro-beads’’ or ‘‘micro-exfoliates’’, and can vary in shape, size, and composition depending upon the product (Fendall and Sewell, 2009).”
Persistence of Plastic Litter in the Oceans (2015, background): “Many different definitions of the size scale that constitute ‘microplastics’ are reported in the research literature (Gregory and Andrady 2003; Betts 2008; Fendall and Sewell 2009).”
Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects. (2015, background): “While the former are typically resin pellets and microbeads 60 associated with industrial spillages (EPA, 1992) and the use of cosmetics (Fendall and Sewell, 2009; 61 Zitko and Hanlon, 1991), the latter (secondary microplastics) are formed through the action of 62 degrading forces such as UV…”
Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments. (2013, background): “Moreover, additional sources of microplastics have been identified: microplastic particles present in cosmetics (Fendall and Sewell, 2009) and microplastic fibres from fabrics such as polyester and polyamide (Browne et al.”
Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes. (2013, background): “Polyethylene and polypropylene microbeads, used in many consumer facial cleansers, have been identified as potential contributors to marine pollution (Gregory, 1996; Fendall and Sewell, 2009).”
Occurrence and effects of plastic additives on marine environments and organisms: A review. (2017, background): “…at micrometric size, including plastic pellets (Barnes et al., 2009; Cole et al., 2011), (ii) MP from exfoliating cosmetics (Chang, 2015; Fendall and Sewell, 2009; Napper et al., 2015; Zitko and Hanlon, 1991) and (iii) clothing fibers found in wastewater treatment plants (Browne et al.,…”