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Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process
About this book
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects on biota, food security, and human exposure. Importantly, global environmental change and its associated, systems-level processes, including atmospheric deposition, ecosystem complexity, UV exposure, wind patterns, water stratification, ocean circulation, etc., are all important direct and indirect factors governing the fate, transport and biotic and abiotic processing of plastic particles across ecosystem types. Furthermore, the distribution of plastic in the ocean is not independent of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics, since much of the plastic in marine ecosystems originates from land and should therefore be evaluated in the context of the larger plastic cycle. Changes in species size, distribution, habitat, and food web complexity, due to global environmental change, will likely alter trophic transfer dynamics and the ecological effects of nano- and microplastics. The fate and transport dynamics of plastic particles are influenced by their size, form, shape, polymer type, additives, and overall ecosystem conditions. In addition to the risks that plastics pose to the total environment, the potential impacts on human health and exposure routes, including seafood consumption, and air and drinking water need to be assessed in a comprehensive and quantitative manner. Here I present a holistic and interdisciplinary book volume designed to advance the understanding of plastic cycling in the environment with an emphasis on sources, fate and transport, ecotoxicology, climate change effects, food security, microbiology, sustainability, human exposure and public policy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. The Microplastic Cycle: An Introduction to a Complex Issue
- 2. Analytical Chemistry of Plastic Debris: Sampling, Methods, and Instrumentation
- 3. Evaluating Microplastic Experimental Design and Exposure Studies in Aquatic Organisms
- 4. Microplastics in Terrestrial and Freshwater Environments
- 5. Marine Microplastics and Seafood: Implications for Food Security
- 6. Weight of Evidence for the Microplastic Vector Effect in the Context of Chemical Risk Assessment
- 7. Ecotoxicological Impacts of Micro- and Nanoplastics in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments
- 8. Dietary Exposure to Additives and Sorbed Contaminants from Ingested Microplastic Particles Through the Consumption of Fisheries and Aquaculture Products
- 9. The Microplastic-Antibiotic Resistance Connection
- 10. The United Nations Basel Conventionâs Global Plastic Waste Partnership: History, Evolution and Progress
- 11. Solutions to Plastic Pollution: A Conceptual Framework to Tackle a Wicked Problem
- Back Matter