Microplastic pollution in Southern Atlantic marine waters: Review of current trends, sources, and perspectives

Rocha, Franciele O. Campos da; Martinez, Sabrina T.; Campos, Vânia Palmeira; Rocha, Gisele O. da; Andrade, Jaílson Bittencourt de

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146541

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“…Nevertheless, according to the size of the specimens and the tiny dimensions of the particles, active predation (confusion with actual prey) is unlikely to occur. The colour composition of MPs extracted from cephalopods resembled those observed in epipelagic and deep-sea water samples elsewhere (Artic and Atlantic Ocean) (Campos da Rocha et al, 2021;Courtene-Jones et al, 2017;Kanhai et al, 2018).…”

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Plastic in the inferno: Microplastic contamination in deep-sea cephalopods (Vampyroteuthis infernalis and Abralia veranyi) from the southwestern Atlantic

Ferreira

Justino

Eduardo

et al. 2022

Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Plastic in the inferno: Microplastic contamination in deep-sea cephalopods (Vampyroteuthis infernalis and Abralia veranyi) from the southwestern Atlantic

Ferreira

Justino

Eduardo

et al. 2022

Marine Pollution Bulletin

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“…Over 368 million metric tons (Mt) of single-use plastic were created in 2019 AQ1 AQ2 AQ3 (refs [ 1,2 ]) and this is projected to increase AQ4 further owing to rapid and inexpensive plastic production, non-circular economic models and a culture of single-use plastics. Plastic pollution has been found in all environmental compartments, including aquatic,from water to soil and air [ 3,4,5,6 ].…”

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Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment

Allen

Abbasi

et al. 2022

Nat Rev Earth Environ

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The discovery of atmospheric micro(nano)plastics transport and ocean-atmosphere exchange points to a highly complex marine plastic cycle, with negative implications for human and ecosystem health. Yet observations are currently limited. In this Perspective, 4 of 23 07/04/2022, 15:41 we quantify the marine-atmospheric micro(nano)plastics cycle processes and fluxes, with the aim of highlighting the remaining unknowns in atmospheric micro(nano)plastics transport. Between 0.013 and 25 million metric tons per year of micro(nano)plastics are potentially being transported within the marine atmosphere and deposited in the oceans. However, the high uncertainty in these marine-atmospheric fluxes is related to data limitations and a lack of study intercomparability. To address the uncertainties and remaining knowledge gaps in the marineatmospheric micro(nano)plastics cycle, we propose a future global marine-atmospheric micro(nano)plastics observation strategy, incorporating novel sampling methods and the creation of a comparable, harmonized and global dataset. Together with long-term observations and intensive investigations, this strategy will help to define the trends in marine-atmospheric pollution and any responses to future policy and management actions.Editor's Summary Atmospheric transport of microplastics could be a major source of plastic pollution to the ocean, yet observations currently remain limited. This Perspective quantifies the known budgets of the marine-atmospheric micro(nano)plastics cycle and proposes a future global observation strategy.

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“…The category of nanoplastics was defined recently in response to studies conducted on microplastics, which revealed that microplastics smaller than 1 µm behaved so differently from larger microplastics (1 µm to 5 mm) that they needed to be classified as a completely separate category [1,2,5]. Studies and reviews on microplastics have covered various environmental aspects [6][7][8][9] .…”

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