Synthetic polymers in the marine environment: a rapidly increasing, long-term threat.

By C. Moore. Environmental Research, 2008

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

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Microplastics in the marine environment: a review of the methods used for identification and quantification. (2012, background): “3,4 Plastic debris enters the marine environment in a wide range of sizes, in the micrometer to meter range.”
Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on biota: a review (2018, background): “as the basic thermostatic industry feed stocks and abrasive plastic beads used to clean ships (Gregory 1977, 1978; Shiber 1979; Zitko and Hanlon 1991; Gregory 1996; Redford et al. 1997; Moore et al. 2001; Derraik 2002; Thompson et al. 2004; Reddy et al. 2006; Betts 2008; Moore 2008).”
Monitoring plastic ingestion by the northern fulmar Fulmarus glacialis in the North Sea. (2011, background): “These concerns are exacerbated by evidence that plastics, in addition to having many embedded chemicals, also adsorb toxic pollutants from the surrounding water, thus potentially boosting bioaccumulation of dangerous contaminants in the food web by ingestion (Endo et al., 2005; Hale et al., 2010; Te”
Association of metals with plastic production pellets in the marine environment. (2010, background): “Although plastics have been recognised as an important component of marine litter for several decades, their ecological and biological impacts have only been acknowledged and understood recently (Derraik, 2002; Moore, 2008).”
The present and future of microplastic pollution in the marine environment. (2014, background): “The prediction by Carpenter and Smith (1972) is the focus of the scientific community that is studying the smallest plastic debris pollution sizes (Moore, 2008; Barnes et al., 2009; Thompson et al., 2009; Ryan et al., 2009; Andrady, 2011).”
Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: a review. (2011, background): “These lower-trophic level organisms are particularly susceptible to ingesting microplastics as many of them are indiscriminate feeders with limited ability to differentiate between plastic particles and food (Moore, 2008).”
The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: a review. (2013, background): “Many of these organisms exert limited selectivity between particles and capture anything of appropriate size (Moore, 2008).”
Microplastic contamination in brown shrimp (Crangon crangon, Linnaeus 1758) from coastal waters of the Southern North Sea and Channel area. (2015, background): “Microplastics have been defined as pieces of plastic smaller than 5 mm and can originate from direct spillage and/or breakdown of bigger plastic items (Moore, 2008; Moore et al., 2011).”
Microplastics are taken up by mussels (Mytilus edulis) and lugworms (Arenicola marina) living in natural habitats. (2015, background): “Many of the latter feed by collecting and sorting particulate matter, applying a feeding strategy that allows them to trap and ingest anything of appropriate size (Moore, 2008).”
Marine litter as habitat and dispersal vector (2015, background): “On the seafloor, marine litter can smother the substratum and thus cause hypoxia in benthic organisms (Moore 2008; Gregory 2009).”