The behaviors of microplastics in the marine environment.

By Jundong Wang, Zhi Tan, Jinping Peng, Qiongxuan Qiu, Meimin Li. Marine Environmental Research, 2016

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions. (2017, background): “Microplastics have recently been identified as an important emerging global problem which affects marine organisms and even humans (Sutherland et al., 2010; Caruso, 2015; Wang et al., 2016).”
• Plastics and microplastics in the oceans: From emerging pollutants to emerged threat. (2017, background): “In general, the combination of physical, chemical and biological factors 428 allow concentrations of chemical pollutants to increase over time via sorption by particles and 429 accumulation by biofilms (Wang et al., 2016).”
• Presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on seafood (2016, neutral): “Microplastics have been subject to several recent reviews (Barnes et al., 2009; Andrady, 2011; Browne et al., 2011; EC, 2011; Law and Thompson, 2014; Wang et al., 2016), with the most comprehensive recent being by Bouwmeester et al. (2015) and GESAMP (2015) which also addressed potential human…”
• Feasting on microplastics: ingestion by and effects on marine organisms (2018, background): “Since the density of many plastic polymers is lower than that of seawater, they float in the marine environment; however, the relative density of floating microplastic may in - crease during its residence time in marine waters (Wang et al. 2016).”
• Understanding How Microplastics Affect Marine Biota on the Cellular Level Is Important for Assessing Ecosystem Function: A Review (2019, background): “Some persistent pollutants (PPs) that sorb onto microplastics are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pesticides (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane, DDTs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), metals, and other endocrine disrupting chemicals (Ng and Obbard 2006; Cole et al.”
• Microplastics pollution in inland freshwaters of China: A case study in urban surface waters of Wuhan, China. (2017, background): “Moreover, biofoulingmay change the density of plastic debris, which leads to a more natural drifting or sinking of plastic particles in water (Wang et al., 2016).”
• Airborne microplastics: Consequences to human health? (2018, positive): “Besides compounds related to plastic composition, microplastics may also adsorb and release environmental contaminants due to their large surface area and hydrophobicity (Teuten et al., 2009; Wang et al., 2016).”