The fundamental links between climate change and marine plastic pollution

HV Ford, NH Jones, AJ Davies, BJ Godley… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution and climate change have commonly been treated as two separate issues
and sometimes are even seen as competing. Here we present an alternative view that these …

[HTML][HTML] Learning from natural sediments to tackle microplastics challenges: A multidisciplinary perspective

K Waldschläger, MZM Brückner, BC Almroth… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although the study of microplastics in the aquatic environment incorporates a diversity of
research fields, it is still in its infancy in many aspects while comparable topics have been …

[HTML][HTML] Rivers as plastic reservoirs

T Van Emmerik, Y Mellink, R Hauk, K Waldschläger… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Land-based plastic waste, carried to the sea through rivers, is considered a main source of
marine plastic pollution. However, most plastics that leak into the environment never make it …

Upcycling and catalytic degradation of plastic wastes

Q Hou, M Zhen, H Qian, Y Nie, X Bai, T ** in coastal zones
V Onink, CE Jongedijk, MJ Hoffman… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Global coastlines potentially contain significant amounts of plastic debris, with harmful
implications for marine and coastal ecosystems, fisheries and tourism. However, the global …

Microplastics alter nitrous oxide production and pathways through affecting microbiome in estuarine sediments

C Chen, J Pan, S **ao, J Wang, X Gong, G Yin, L Hou… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing microplastics (MPs) pollution in estuaries profoundly impacts microbial
ecosystems and biogeochemical processes. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O), a powerful greenhouse …

Can we quantify the aquatic environmental plastic load from aquaculture?

Y Tian, Z Yang, X Yu, Z Jia, M Rosso, S Dedman, J Zhu… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Aquaculture provides livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people, but it also forms a
significant source of plastic litter that poses a serious hazard to aquatic ecosystems. How to …

Fate and effects of macro-and microplastics in coastal wetlands

X Ouyang, CM Duarte, SG Cheung… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Coastal wetlands trap plastics from terrestrial and marine sources, but the stocks of plastics
and their impacts on coastal wetlands are poorly known. We evaluated the stocks, fate, and …

Elder fish means more microplastics? Alaska pollock microplastic story in the Bering Sea

J Ding, P Ju, Q Ran, J Li, F Jiang, W Cao, J Zhang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Marine microplastics are an increasingly big concern. We analyze the occurrence of
microplastics in Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) across 2+ to 12+ ages sampled …