Microplastic in Marine Environment and Its Impact

Wibowo, Yudha Gusti; Maryani, Anis Tatik; Rosanti, Dewi; Rosarina, Desy

doi:10.31851/sainmatika.v16i1.2884

Cited by 10 publications

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“…Currently, more than eight million tons of plastics are dumped into the oceans every year, of which about two million tons of plastic comes from rivers [2,3]. Contamination of this sort takes a long time to decompose in environmental conditions, and it has an extremely negative effect on living organisms and humans [4]. Under the influence of solar UV radiation, mechanical abrasion, and other destructive factors, larger plastic litter items are fragmented into microplastic (<0.5 mm) e.g., [5,6] and become even more hazardous to living creatures and ecosystems [7].…”

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Marine Litter Stormy Wash-Outs: Developing the Neural Network to Predict Them

Fetisov

Chubarenko

2021

Pollutants

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Observations show that after stormy events, anthropogenic litter is washed ashore for short periods of time, providing the opportunity to collect and remove it from the environment. However, water dynamics in sea coastal zones during and after storms are very complicated, and the transport properties of litter items are very diverse; thus, predicting litter wash-outs using classical numerical models is challenging. We analyze meteorological and hydrophysical conditions in the Baltic Sea coastal zone to further use the obtained data as a training sequence for an artificial neural network (ANN). Analysis of the physical processes behind large litter wash-outs links open-source meteorological (wind speed and direction) and hydrodynamic reanalysis (surface wave parameters) data to the time and location of these wash-outs. A detailed analysis of 25 cases of wash-outs observed at the shore of the Sambian Peninsula was performed. The importance of the duration of the storm and its subsiding phase was revealed. An ANN structure is proposed for forecasting marine debris wash-outs as the first step in the creation of a neural network-based tool for managers and beach cleaners, helping to plan effective measures to remove plastics and other anthropogenic contaminants from the marine environment.

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confidence: 99%

Marine Litter Stormy Wash-Outs: Developing the Neural Network to Predict Them

Fetisov

Chubarenko

2021

Pollutants

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“…This indicates that some of the originally colored microplastic particles turned into colorless particles and that could be because of the physical or chemical reactions between the particles and the surroundings. The changing of color was also mentioned by Chen et al [60] and by Wibowo et al [61] which show that time is playing a role in changing the microplastic color and size.…”

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confidence: 61%

Microplastic Contaminants in the Sediment of the East Coast of Saudi Arabia

Ali¹,

Al‐Thukair²,

Pulikkoden³

et al. 2023

Environmental Sciences

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Microplastic contamination in the sediment of the east coast of Saudi Arabia was not addressed by any study. The objective of this study is to obtain the first measurement of microplastic abundance at four different beaches on the east coast of Saudi Arabia (Khafji, Jubial, Dammam, and Salwa). Sediment samples were collected from both high tide and low tide zone. A total of 586 microplastic particles were collected from all the sites with an average particle size of 1.55 ± 0.94 mm. The majority of microplastic particles (77%) were less than 2 mm in size. Microplastic abundance ranged from 5.5 ± 1.55 to 21.2 ± 0.68 particle/kg (51.1 ± 14.71 to 152.8 ± 21.32 particle/m2) in low tide region, and from 6.3 ± 4.05 to 16.5 ± 4.98 particle/kg (50.6 ± 31.21 to 204.5 ± 64.15 particle/m2) in high tide region. The most dominant colors were transparent (34%) and blue (30%), while the fiber was the most common shape (96%). Polyethylene terephthalates were the common polymer type of fibers, while polyethylene and high-density polyethylene were common in fragments and filaments.

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“…Microplastic contamination in ecological risk is the adverse environmental effects of exposure. Marine organisms are exposed through direct and indirect ingestion of MP or inhalation (Hidalgo Ruz, et al, 2012;Kaposi et al, 2013;Neves et al, 2015;Ogunola and Palanisami, 2016;Auta et al, 2017;Gallo et al, 2018;Wibowo et al, 2019;Ugwu et al, 2021;Wootton et al, 2021;Harqu and Fan, 2022).…”

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Microplastic Bioaccumulation by Tiger Snail (Babylonia spirata): Application of Nuclear Technique Capability using Polystyrene Labelled with Radiotracer 65Zn

et al. 2023

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Plastic waste is a solid that is difficult to decompose but can turn into environmental microplastics. Microplastics are sizes between 0.1 μm–5 mm, highly prolific anthropogenic pollutants affecting terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. The purpose of this study was to determine the ability of Babylonia spirata to accumulate and eliminate polystyrene microplastics. This experiment uses the nuclear applications technique. The experiment consists of two methods: manufacturing microplastics and biokinetics. The manufacture of microplastics labeled Zn-65 is based on the reaction of polystyrene sulfonate with zinc to form polystyrene sulfonate Zn resin. This microplastic labeled Zn-65 is very stable in the aquatic environment, so it is used for bioaccumulation experiments. Biokinetics includes acclimatization/adaptation of the organism for seven days, bioaccumulation consists of the organism accumulating microplastics labeled Zn-65 for seven days, and depuration for seven days that were placing the organism accumulating microplastics labeled Zn-65 in water free of contamination and biokinetics calculations include the BCF (Biocontration Factor), ku (uptake constant), ke (depuration constants), and t1/2 (half-life). The experimental results show that the ability to bioaccumulate polystyrene microplastics from seawater (BCF) is 79.2 to 304.31 ml.g-1. This bioaccumulation is affected by the microplastic content in the water. The biological half-life of the microplastic is 14.54 to 41.78 d. There is a relationship between the concentration and the Ku, Ke and BCF. the polystyrene content. The experimental results show that microplastics bioaccumulate in a marine organism so that they can move through the food chain and are ultimately harmful to humans.

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Microplastic in Marine Environment and Its Impact

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Marine Litter Stormy Wash-Outs: Developing the Neural Network to Predict Them

Marine Litter Stormy Wash-Outs: Developing the Neural Network to Predict Them

Microplastic Contaminants in the Sediment of the East Coast of Saudi Arabia

Microplastic Bioaccumulation by Tiger Snail (Babylonia spirata): Application of Nuclear Technique Capability using Polystyrene Labelled with Radiotracer 65Zn

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