[OANNES Foro] Microplastics in the seas

[Mario Cabrejos]

Science 11 July 2014: 
Vol. 345 no. 6193 pp. 144-145 
DOI: 10.1126/science.1254065


 


Microplastics in the seas


1.
<http://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=Kara+Lavender+Law&sortspec=date&su
bmit=Submit> Kara Lavender Law
<http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6193/144.short#aff-1> 1,
<http://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=Richard+C.+Thompson&sortspec=date&
submit=Submit> Richard C. Thompson
<http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6193/144.short#aff-2> 2

1.    1Department of Oceanography, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA
02543, USA.2School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University,
Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK.E-mail:  <mailto:klavender en sea.edu> klavender en sea.edu

Plastic debris in the marine environment is more than just an unsightly
problem. Images of beach litter and large floating debris may first come to
mind, but much recent concern about plastic pollution has focused on
microplastic particles too small to be easily detected by eye (see the
figure). Microplastics are likely the most numerically abundant items of
plastic debris in the ocean today, and quantities will inevitably increase,
in part because large, single plastic items ultimately degrade into millions
of microplastic pieces. Microplastics are of environmental concern because
their size (millimeters or smaller) renders them accessible to a wide range
of organisms at least as small as zooplankton, with potential for physical
and toxicological harm.

 



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