Distribution of Microplastics in the Marine Environment

Pierluigi Strafella; Matthias López Correa; Ines Pyko; Sebastian Teichert; Alessio Gomiero

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10618-8_43-1

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Distribution of Microplastics in the Marine Environment

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Pierluigi Strafella, Matthias López Correa, Ines Pyko, Sebastian Teichert, Alessio Gomiero

Summary

Researchers reviewed the distribution of microplastics throughout the world's oceans, documenting their presence in surface water, deep sediments, and marine organisms from coastal zones to the open sea, underscoring how widespread and persistent plastic pollution has become.

Study Type Environmental

The increasing rate of worldwide plastic consumption and its release to the environment associated with a low degradation rate is resulting, nowadays, in its accumulation in all the ocean matrices, from sediment to water, in pelagic and benthic biota, from coastal to...

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