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Comprehensive Review regarding the Profile of the Microplastic Pollution in the Coastal Area of the Black Sea
Sustainability2022
49 citations
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Alexandra Săvucă,
Alexandra Săvucă,
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Alexandra Săvucă,
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Caterina Faggio
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Alexandra Săvucă,
Alexandra Săvucă,
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Mircea Nicoară,
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Caterina Faggio
Mircea Nicoară,
Alexandra Săvucă,
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Summary
This literature review profiled microplastic pollution across the Black Sea, summarizing contamination levels in water, sediment, and seafood consumed by coastal populations. The Black Sea's unique hydrodynamics and heavy riverine inputs create hotspots for microplastic accumulation, with seafood contamination posing direct human exposure concerns.
Lately, the interest in researching microplastics in the Black Sea has increased, highlighting areas of accumulation in which the amounts of microplastics are alarming, such as seafood consumed by the population. The Black Sea has special characteristics in terms of currents and wave dynamics that create opportunities for the accumulation of microplastics in hotspot points, such as in the context of large rivers discharge that contains large amounts of pollutants and new sources of contamination. This article offers a literature-based profile on plastic pollution in the Black Sea—pollution that originates in the discharge of large rivers, transportation, and other economic activities, even the COVID-19 pandemic—in order to highlight “microplastic hotspots” before the current political crisis that directly involves the Black Sea worsens.