Accumulation of microplastic on shorelines woldwide: sources and sinks.

By M. Browne, Phillip Crump, S. Niven, Emma L. Teuten, A. Tonkin, T. Galloway, Richard C. Thompson. Environmental Science and Technology, 2011

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

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In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Microplastics in Swiss Floodplain Soils. (2018, positive): “This agreed with the results of a study of shoreline sediment performed by Browne et al.(34) However, no correlation was found between the MEP concentration and the number of permanent inhabitants (ρ=0.”
• Quantification of microplastic mass and removal rates at wastewater treatment plants applying Focal Plane Array (FPA)-based Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) imaging. (2018, background): “…waste has led to its widespread presence in the environment (Van Cauwenberghe et al., 2013; Villarrubia-G omez et al., 2017), where the long-term ubiquity of plastic litter poses various threats to different ecosystems and organisms at all trophic levels (Barnes et al., 2009; Browne et al., 2011).”
• Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review on occurrence, environmental effects, and methods for microplastics detection. (2017, background): “, 2017) and 40 to 400 pieces/ L in sediments (Zurcher, 2009; Browne et al., 2011; Antunes et al., 2013; Frias et al., 2014; Nor and Obbard, 2014).”
• Simulating human exposure to indoor airborne microplastics using a Breathing Thermal Manikin (2019, background): “Most MP are generated by the breakdown of larger items such as clothings 5 , car tires 6 , and mismanaged urban plastic waste 7 .”
• Effects of micro-plastic particles on paraquat toxicity to common carp (Cyprinus carpio): biochemical changes (2017, background): “With a long half-life, this abundant plastic waste threatens the ecosystems, especially aquatic ones (Browne et al. 2011; Wright et al. 2013).”
• Adsorption of antibiotics on microplastics. (2018, background): “, 2015), water column (Nel and Froneman, 2015), and bottom sediments (Browne et al., 2011).”
• Microplastics in bivalves cultured for human consumption. (2014, background): “Additional sources of microplastics include microplastics present in cosmetics (Fendall and Sewell, 2009) and microplastic fibres from synthetic fabrics such as polyester and polyamide (Browne et al., 2011; Dubaish and Liebezeit, 2013).”
• Wastewater treatment plants as a pathway for microplastics: Development of a new approach to sample wastewater-based microplastics. (2017, background): “…(PE) and polyropylene (PP) beads and polyester, acrylic, 78 polyamide and nylon fibres in the marine environment have suggested that wastewater effluent is a 79 potential source (Browne et al. 2011, Dris et al. 2015b, Eriksen et al. 2013, Gallagher et al. 2016, 80 McCormick et al. 2014).”