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Microplastic and oil pollution in oceans: Interactions and environmental impacts

The Science of The Total Environment 2022 51 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count. Score: 45 ? 0–100 AI score estimating relevance to the microplastics field. Papers below 30 are filtered from public browse.

Min Yang, Min Yang, Min Yang, Min Yang, Min Yang, Min Yang, Xiaying Xin, Xiaying Xin, Min Yang, Min Yang, Baiyu Zhang, Min Yang, Baiyu Zhang, Bing Chen Bing Chen Baiyu Zhang, Baiyu Zhang, Min Yang, Baiyu Zhang, Bing Chen Min Yang, Baiyu Zhang, Min Yang, Bing Chen Bing Chen Baiyu Zhang, Baiyu Zhang, Min Yang, Min Yang, Min Yang, Min Yang, Min Yang, Min Yang, Bing Chen Kenneth Lee, Kenneth Lee, Baiyu Zhang, Bing Chen Xiaying Xin, Xiaying Xin, Xiaying Xin, Xiaying Xin, Xiaying Xin, Kenneth Lee, Bing Chen Bing Chen Kenneth Lee, Xiaying Xin, Xiaying Xin, Xiaying Xin, Xiaying Xin, Bing Chen Kenneth Lee, Baiyu Zhang, Baiyu Zhang, Min Yang, Baiyu Zhang, Baiyu Zhang, Bing Chen Bing Chen Kenneth Lee, Baiyu Zhang, Baiyu Zhang, Kenneth Lee, Bing Chen Kenneth Lee, Baiyu Zhang, Bing Chen Kenneth Lee, Bing Chen Min Yang, Baiyu Zhang, Bing Chen Kenneth Lee, Baiyu Zhang, Baiyu Zhang, Kenneth Lee, Baiyu Zhang, Baiyu Zhang, Baiyu Zhang, Bing Chen

Summary

This review examined how microplastics and oil interact when they co-occur in the ocean, finding that they combine to form microplastic-oil agglomerates that reduce oil dispersion efficacy, alter biodegradation rates, and cause greater harm to plankton and higher trophic species than either contaminant alone. The agglomerates also slow vertical carbon transport, with potential implications for ocean carbon cycling.

Study Type Environmental

Microplastics (MPs) have been found in oil-polluted oceans, but studies on MPs and oil were still focused on their respective transport, biodegradation, and bioaccumulation. The interactions between MPs and oil in the marine environment remain unknown. MPs would incorporate with oil to form MP-oil agglomerate (MOA), the behaviors of MOA were thus discussed in this study. It was found that the MOA formation resulted in the decreased oil dispersion efficacy and affect marine oil spill response operations. Moreover, oil biodegradation rate would be changed when oil existed as the form of MOA. The slow vertical transport of MOA might lead to wider ocean contamination. MOA would cause much worse impacts on phytoplankton, zooplankton, and high trophic species in the marine environment than MPs or oil individually. MOA assembling with phytoplankton in oceans may reduce carbon dioxide (CO) transport to deep seas. Exploring the interactions between MPs and oil in the marine environment opened a door for understanding MPs and oil as co-contaminants.

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