The size, mass, and composition of plastic debris in the western North Atlantic Ocean.

By Skye Morét-Ferguson, K. L. Law, G. Proskurowski, Ellen K Murphy, Emily E. Peacock, C. Reddy. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2010

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Plastic ingestion by mesopelagic fishes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (2011, background): “Assuming a density of 0.91 g ml–1 (Moret-Ferguson et al. 2010), the mean mass of a plastic fragment was 3.1 mg.”
• The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: a review. (2013, background): “Morét-Ferguson et al. (2010) report a shift in the abundance of plastic debris to smaller size categories in the western North Atlantic Ocean.”
• Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Distribution, Interactions and Effects (2015, background): “Distinct patterns emerged with the highest concentration (83 % of plastics) in subtropical latitudes, 22°N and 88°N, of the north Atlantic gyre marking the presence of a large-scale convergence zone (Law et al. 2010; Morét-Ferguson et al. 2010) similar to the south Pacific (Eriksen et al. 2013).”
• Organic micropollutants in marine plastics debris from the open ocean and remote and urban beaches. (2011, background): “Resin pellets are significant, but minor components among the marine plastics compared with more abundant fragments of plastic products in marine environments (Law et al., 2010; Moret-Ferguson et al., 2010) and biota (Ryan et al.”
• A new analytical approach for monitoring microplastics in marine sediments. (2014, background): “The density of lighter polymers can be enhanced by the presence of additives, fillers or bio fouling processes (US EPA, 1992; Braun, 2003; Thompson et al., 2009; Moret-Ferguson et al., 2010; Hidalgo-Ruz et al., 2012).”
• Origin, dynamics and evolution of ocean garbage patches from observed surface drifters (2012, background): “Secondly, the marine debris in the real ocean is also a combination of plastics in the neuston (the layer where the wind has a very large effect) and near-neutrally buoyant plastics in the mixed layer (Kukulka et al 2012, Morét-Ferguson et al 2010, Cole et al 2011).”
• Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects. (2015, neutral): “Using nitrogen as 85 a proxy, Morét-Ferguson et al. (2010) concluded that the reported change in microplastic density is 86 due to attached biomass.”
• Rafting on abiotic substrata: properties of floating items and their influence on community succession (2011, background): “The low density of plastics and Styrofoam (e.g. Ye & Andrady 1991, Morét-Ferguson et al. 2010) and their capacity to retain volumes of air in hermetically closed spaces provide particularly high buoyancy to some of these substrata.”