Hazardous chemicals associated with plastics in the marine environment. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Volume editors: Hideshige Takada, Hrissi K. Karapanagioti ; with contributions by L.A. Amaral-Zettler [and more].
• Editors: Takada, Hideshige; Karapanagioti, Hrissi K
• Contents: Additives and Chemicals in Plastics.- Food Containers and Packaging Materials as Possible Source of Hazardous Chemicals to Food.- Release of additives and monomers from plastic wastes.- Degradation of various plastics in the environment.- Occurrence of Marine Litter in the Marine Environment: A World Panorama of Floating and Seafloor Plastics.- Sources, Distribution, and Fate of Microscopic Plastics in Marine Environments.- Nature of Plastic Marine Pollution in the Subtropical Gyres.- Hazardous chemicals in plastics in marine environments: International Pellet Watch.- Sorption of hydrophobic organic compounds to plastics in marine environments: equilibrium.- Sorption of Hydrophobic Organic Compounds to Plastics in the Marine Environment: Sorption and Desorption Kinetics.- Biofilms on Plastic Debris and Their Influence on Marine Nutrient Cycling, Productivity, and Hazardous Chemical Mobility.- Ingestion of plastics by marine organisms.- Transfer of hazardous chemicals from ingested plastics to higher-trophic level organisms.- The Role of Plastic Debris as Another Source of Hazardous Chemicals in Lower-Trophic Level Organisms.- Conclusions of 'Hazardous Chemicals Associated with Plastics in Environment'.- Erratum to: Food Containers and Packaging Materials as Possible Source of Hazardous Chemicals to Food.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 363.738; Environment; Plastic marine debris; Hazardous substances -- Environmental aspects; Technology & Engineering -- Textiles & Polymers; Science -- Environmental Science; Technology & Engineering -- Environmental -- Water Supply; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Polymer chemistry; Environmental science, engineering & technology; Water supply & treatment; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Environmental chemistry; Polymers; Environmental toxicology; Aquatic biology; Pollution & threats to the environment; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319955681; 3319955683
• Related ISBNs: 9783319955667
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 18, 2018).
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