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Chemical composition of microplastics floating on the surface of the Mediterranean Sea

2022
Kedzierski Mikaël, Palazot Maialen, Soccalingame Lata, Falcou-Préfol Mathilde, Gabriel Gorsky, François Galgani, Stéphane Bruzaud, Pedrotti Maria Luiza

Summary

This dataset describes the polymer composition of microplastics collected from Mediterranean Sea surface waters during the 2014 Tara Mediterranean expedition. Polyethylene was the dominant polymer at 67.3%, followed by polypropylene at 20.8% and polystyrene at 3.0%, as identified by FTIR spectroscopy.

This dataset describes the types and proportions of the different microplastic types in samples collected from the surface waters during the Tara Mediterranean expedition in 2014. The main polymers identified by Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) spectroscopy were poly(ethylene) (67.3 ± 2.4%), poly(propylene) (20.8 ± 2.1%) and poly(styrene) (3.0 ± 0.9%). N

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