RT editorial
T1 Editorial: New plastic pollution types and novel sources of microplastic pollution in marine systems
A1 Ehlers, Sonja M.
A1 Ellrich, Julius A.
A1 Gestoso García, Ignacio José
A2 Biología
K1 plastiglomerate
K1 pyroplastic
K1 plasticrust
K1 paint chips
K1 polymer based paints
K1 plastitar
AB Plastic pollution has been extensively studied over the past decades. For instance, it iswell known that animals get entangled in discarded plastic (Afonso and Fidelis, 2023) andconsume microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) while foraging (Ehlers et al., 2021).Examples of microplastic sources comprise everyday single-use items such as plasticpackaging material (Tziourrou et al., 2021), lost or discarded plastic fishing gear (Wuet al., 2023), and tire wear (Goßmann et al., 2021). However, novel microplastic sources,such as weathering polymer-based paints, have only recently been identified (Figure 1A).Even though paints are used in various applications on a regular basis, this source has beenlargely neglected in the past (Gaylarde et al., 2021).
PB Frontiers Media SA
SN 2296-7745
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32869
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32869
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 15-nov-2026