Plastic debris in the open ocean

By A. Cózar, F. Echevarría, J. I. González-Gordillo, Xabier Irigoien, Bárbara Úbeda, S. Hernández‐León, A. Palma, Sandra Navarro, J. García‐de‐Lomas, Andrea Ruiz and 2 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on biota: a review (2018, background): “Thus, there may be a considerable potential of microplastic debris to get accumulated in freshwater and marine environments (Cózar et al. 2014; Sanchez et al. 2014; Campbell et al. 2017).”
Effects of biofouling on the sinking behavior of microplastics (2017, background): “However, a large amount of produced plastic is buoyant (Cózar et al 2014) and should not sink on its own accord.”
(Nano)plastics in the environment - Sources, fates and effects. (2016, background): “These mathematical models predict that such large-scale vortices may act as “conveyor belts”, collecting the floating plastic debris released and accumulating it into central convergence zones (Cózar et al., 2014). oncentrations.”
A Global Perspective on Microplastics (2020, background): “Early hypotheses for the location of this “missing plastic” included degradation into minute fragments below size detection limits, biofouling (which may lead to sinking), stranding of debris, ingestion by marine species, and incomplete observations (Cózar et al., 2014).”
The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris (2020, background): “…the estimates of the amount of municipal solid plastic waste generated on land that enters coastal waters (5–12million tonnes yr−1, Jambeck et al 2015) and the total amount of plastic floating at sea (less than 0.3 million tonnes, Cózar et al 2014, Eriksen et al 2014, van Sebille et al 2015b).”
Presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on seafood (2016, positive): “The size distribution of ﬂ oating plastic material in the oceans also suggests that continued fragmentation of microplastics into nanoplastics may occur (Cozar et al., 2014).”
River plastic emissions to the world's oceans (2017, background): “Yet, the relatively high concentrations of ocean plastic found at the surface of the North Paciﬁc Ocean 28,29 where buoyant plastics originating from Asia can accumulate 30 , suggest that our assumptions are plausible.”
Microplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment: sources (with a specific focus on personal care products), fate and effects (2016, background): “It is controversially discussed if the increasing trend has continued since the 1990s [20, 65, 71, 128, 129].”