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Comparative Analysis of Contamination with Microplastic Particles of Ice in the Curonian Lagoon (Baltic Sea) and Novik Bay (Sea of Japan)

Springer proceedings in earth and environmental sciences 2023
Irina Bocherikova, Olga Lobchuk, Irina Chubarenko

Summary

Researchers compared microplastic contamination in ice cores from two geographically distant sites — the Baltic Sea and the Sea of Japan — finding that even frozen coastal environments accumulate plastic particles ranging from 0.3 to 5 mm. The presence of microplastics in ice from both regions suggests contamination has reached remote and seasonally frozen aquatic environments.

In this work, ice cores from the Novik Bay (Sea of Japan) and the Curonian Lagoon (Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad region) are examined for contamination with microplastics (0.3–5 mm). The method of sampling and processing samples in a similar. The average...

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