Plastics, the environment and human health: current consensus and future trends

By Richard C. Thompson, C. Moore, F. V. vom Saal, S. Swan. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009

2,688 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. A. Lusher
2. J. C. Prata
3. Richard C. Thompson
4. S. Al-thawadi
5. T. Galloway
6. S. Anbumani
7. P. Kakkar
8. P. Ryan

In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. A. Lusher
2. J. C. Prata
3. Richard C. Thompson
4. S. Al-thawadi
5. K. Duis
6. A. Coors
7. F. Galgani
8. P. Ryan

In Pollution

1. A. Lusher
2. J. C. Prata
3. Richard C. Thompson
4. S. Al-thawadi
5. T. Galloway
6. A. Coors
7. K. Duis
8. P. Ryan

Citations in the corpus

• A critical analysis of the biological impacts of plasticizers on wildlife (2009, background): “…environmental pollutants, are also a much neglected area of study, and given that there are likely to be additive effects, this warrants investigations to assess more accurately their impacts in the environment (see discussion in Koch & Calafat 2009; Teuten et al. 2009; Thompson et al. 2009b).”
• Plastic pollution in the marine environment (2020, background): “The density of microplastic is increasing in all oceans worldwide (Thompson et al., 2009).”
• Bioavailability and effects of microplastics on marine zooplankton: A review. (2019, background): “However, these findings are worth noting as the concentration of microplastics will increase in the future due to further degradation of larger plastics already present in the marine environment (Thompson et al., 2009).”
• Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: a review. (2011, background): “Plastic fragments were first identified in the guts of sea birds in the 1960s, when global plastic production was less than 25 million tonnes per annum (Ryan et al., 2009; Thompson et al., 2009b).”
• Adsorption of antibiotics on microplastics. (2018, background): “5 million tonnes in 1950 to 311million tonnes in 2014 (Thompson et al., 2009; Plastics, 2015), which accompanied by increasing release of plastic waste to the environment.”
• Modeling marine surface microplastic transport to assess optimal removal locations (2016, background): “Oceanic plastic pollution is a widespread problem that has heavily-documented environmental, ecological, and economical impacts (Gregory 2009, Thompson et al 2009).”