Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes.

By M. Eriksen, S. Mason, S. Wilson, Carolynn Box, Ann F. Zellers, William J. Edwards, H. Farley, S. Amato. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2013

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

Microplastics in freshwater ecosystems: what we know and what we need to know (2014, background): “MP have been detected in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes [41].”
Microplastic fragments and microbeads in digestive tracts of planktivorous fish from urban coastal waters (2016, neutral): “Eriksen et al. 12 found many multi-colored spherical polymers of < 1 mm in surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America 12 .”
Microplastics in freshwater systems: a review of the emerging threats, identification of knowledge gaps and prioritisation of research needs. (2015, methodology): “…treatment, authors suggest that population uses of certain products, e.g. microbeads in cosmetic/cleaning products, in conjunction with wastewater treatments which are unable to capture floatingmicroplastics, contributes to the presence of microplastics in freshwater bodies (Eriksen et al., 2013).”
Microplastics pollution in inland freshwaters of China: A case study in urban surface waters of Wuhan, China. (2017, background): “In addition, a set of plastic-like items (two particles for each water) were selected based on the proportions of different shapes in the total microplastics, and confirmed by identifying their polymer composition using the Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer (Nicolet 6700; Thermo Fisher”
First evidence of microplastics in the African Great Lakes: Recovery from Lake Victoria Nile perch and Nile tilapia (2016, background): “In common with other studies conducted at freshwater sites (Eriksen et al., 2013; Free et al., 2014), it appears that the nature of the plastic pollution may be related to the usage and waste by the local human population.”
Microplastics in commercial bivalves from China. (2015, background): “On the other hand, our study further confirms the importance of conducting elemental analysis or chemical analysis of microplastics to avoid misidentification (Eriksen et al., 2013; Song et al., 2015).”
Assessment of microplastics in freshwater systems: A review. (2019, background): “From the data and map, one of the most striking studies is from the Great Lake Basin of North America, where the average abundance of microplastics floating on the surface was as high as 43,000 units km -2 (Eriksen et al., 2013).”
Twenty years of microplastic pollution research—what have we learned? (2024, background): “…( 18 ) Occurrence of microplastics in commercial seafood and other food products ( 88 ) Microbeads detected in the Great Lakes, North America ( 25 ) Substantial quantities of microbeads reported in cosmetics ( 173 ) of microplastics in drinking water ( (( 19 ) and Arctic ( 21 ) Desk-based…”