Chapter 11 treats the biodegradation of plastics, as opposed to the chemical degradation processes outlined in Chapter 8. Chapter 3 reviews three basic scientific methodological approaches to plastic pollution: emission rates, transport models and pollution identification. The list of papers...
Marine debris Marine mammal Plastic pollution Seabird Turtle 1. Introduction Marine litter, and in particular plastic waste, is a growing environmental concern due to its aesthetic, economic, and ecological impacts. Volunteer clean-up efforts and coastal litter surveys have raised the public's awarenes...
Impacts of Microplastics on Marine Organisms and in Human Health Plastics are widely used in daily lives but uncontrollably dumped into the ocean by humans. Plastic pollution is harmful to the marine environment and orga... MS Bhuyan,M Rashed-Un-Nabi,M Alam,... 被引量: 0发表: 2021年 ...
Global oceans receive a certain portion of this plastic (Barnes et al., 2009; Law, 2017). It is largely unknown how much plastic enters and is retained in the ocean because the behavior and fate of plastics in the marine environment is still unclear. A large portion of marine plastic ...
Each year, millions of metric tons of the plastic produced for food packaging, personal care products, fishing gear, and other human activities end up in lakes, rivers, and the ocean. The breakdown of these primary plastics in the environment results in microplastics, small fragments of plastic...
Aggregation process of drifting fish aggregating devices (DADs) in the Western Indian Ocean: who arrives first, tuna or non-tuna species? PLoS ONE 14, e0210435 (2019). Borrelle, S. B. et al. Why we need an international agreement on marine plastic pollution. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA...
Pollution can lead to the accumulation of toxic substances in the tissues of marine animals, which can lead to health problems and even death. For example, plastic pollution can be ingested by marine animals, leading to blockages in their digestive systems. Similarly, oil spills can lead to ...
WATCH BELOW: Take a ride in a mobile lab measuring air pollution To study the machine’s effectiveness, Hendricks and his colleagues took it out to six collection sites in the nearby Bedford Basin. The team ran the machine at each of these site...
Global plastic pollution The first plastic to be produced in commercial quantities, Bakelite, was invented in the early 1900s. A scarcity of resources and a need to enhance technologies following the First World War drove the development of new and improved synthetic materials, including plastics. ...
Plastic pollution The qualities that make plastic so useful—durability and resistance to degradation—are exactly what make it so slow to break down. In less than 100 years, plastic production has increased tomore than 430 million tonnes per year, with two-thirds of this being short-lived prod...