Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: a review.

By M. Cole, P. Lindeque, C. Halsband, T. Galloway. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2011

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Microplastics in freshwater systems: a review of the emerging threats, identification of knowledge gaps and prioritisation of research needs. (2015, background): “In oceans, the small size and low density of microplastics contributes to their widespread transport across large distances particularly by ocean currents (Cole et al., 2011; Ballent et al., 2012; Eriksson et al., 2013).”
• Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects. (2015, background): “…with industrial spillages (EPA, 1992) and the use of cosmetics (Fendall and Sewell, 2009; 61 Zitko and Hanlon, 1991), the latter (secondary microplastics) are formed through the action of 62 degrading forces such as UV radiation and physical abrasion (Barnes et al., 2009; Cole et al., 2011).”
• Contributions of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in microplastic pollution research: A review (2020, background): “…in microscopic size for specific purpose (including microbeads) and secondary MPs, which are formed from large plastic debris degraded and fragmented by long-term physical, chemical and biological effects in the environment (Cole et al., 2011; Veerasingam et al., 2017; Besseling et al., 2019).”
• Identification of microplastic in effluents of waste water treatment plants using focal plane array-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging. (2017, neutral): “Being exposed to environmental abiotic and biotic processes, plastic undergoes degradation and fragmentation into smaller particles (Cole et al., 2011).”
• Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments. (2013, background): “In the last decade it has been demonstrated that in the marine environment such large plastic items will break up into smaller fragments (Andrady, 2011; Cole et al., 2011) with dimensions as small as a fewmicrometre, the so called microplastics.”
• A new analytical approach for monitoring microplastics in marine sediments. (2014, background): “These resulted in the rapidly growing mass production of plastics, which for the most common polymer types commenced in the 1930s and 1940s (Cole et al., 2011).”
• Microplastics and mesoplastics in fish from coastal and fresh waters of China. (2017, background): “Plastics comprise the largest part of marine debris and have been reported as important pollutants in marine as well as freshwater environments (Thompson et al., 2004; Cole et al., 2011; Maximenko et al., 2012; Wagner et al., 2014; Dris et al., 2015).”
• Microplastic fiber and drought effects on plants and soil are only slightly modified by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (2020, background): “(Cole et al., 2011; Eerkes-Medrano et al., 2015; Machado et al., 2018a; Bergmann et al., 2019) and can potentially affect ecosystems and biodiversity.”