Nanoplastics in the Aquatic Environment. Critical Review

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2012; Koelmans et al. 2014a), including several other chapters in this volume (Browne 2015; Galgani et al. ... plastic particles (Arthur et al. 2009). Another recent ...
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Nanoplastics in the Aquatic Environment. Critical Review Albert A. Koelmans, Ellen Besseling and Won J. Shim

Abstract A growing body of literature reports on the abundance and effects of plastic debris, with an increasing focus on microplastic particles smaller than 5 mm. It has often been suggested that plastic particles in the 5 mm macroplastic in marine ecosystems and biota, followed by an increasing focus on