The distribution and morphology of microplastics in coastal soils adjacent to the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea

By Qian-Xiong Zhou, Haibo Zhang, Chuancheng Fu, Yang Zhou, Zhenfei Dai, Yuan Li, C. Tu, Yongming Luo. Geoderma, 2018

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Abstract Microplastics ( 3000 km of coastline in Shandong province, east China, adjacent to both the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea coastlines under different land use management. Microplastics were separated from the soil samples using a continuous flow and floating separation apparatus. The shape type, size, abundance, spatial distribution, polymer composition and surface morphology of the microplastics were identified by a range of advanced microscopic and micro-analytical methods. The analytical results show that seven shape types, namely foams, pellets, fragments, flakes, fibers, films and sponges, were present in the beach soils. The polymer composition of the microplastics included polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyether urethane and a polymer blend of both polyethylene and polypropylene. Approximately 60% of the observed microplastics had a size range

Subfields: Biomaterials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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• Interactions between microplastics and soil fauna: A critical review (2021, background): “Zhou et al. (2018) found different shapes of MPs from coastal soils showed different weathering surface morphological features, including scratches, creases, and micropores (both concave and convex), which can be ascribed to physical friction, photochemical oxidation, and/or animal attack.”