Hazardous Chemicals Associated with Plastics in the Marine Environment by Hideshige Takada & Hrissi K. Karapanagioti

Author:Hideshige Takada & Hrissi K. Karapanagioti
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319955681
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Our new understanding provides us with new language and focus to describe and mitigate the problem while offering a call to action to engage citizen science to monitor plastic marine pollution over time.

Early metaphorical descriptors of “patches” or “soup” of plastic in the gyres perpetuate public misconceptions about the resilience, residence, and characterization of floating debris. The nature of plastic debris in the subtropical gyres, reflecting the trends of increased input of plastic waste, rapid fragmentation, and global distribution out of the gyres is more akin to “smog” (Fig. 6), like the particulates of carbon in air pollution over urban centers distributed by atmospheric currents and slowly settling to the ground. Similarly, plastic smog is a particulate of hydrocarbon distributed by ocean currents and slowly settling to the seafloor.

Fig. 65.25 trillion particles of plastic in the surface waters of the global ocean

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