Sentences with word «microplastics»

Experts are concerned that the concentration of microplastics in the Arctic Ocean poses near - permanent contamination.

Researchers from the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and their Berlin colleagues warn: the impact of microplastics in soils, sediments and the freshwaters could have a long - term negative effect on terrestrial ecosystems throughout the world.

In a scientific paper released June 12 in the international journal Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Dr. Ross and his co-authors, Jean - Pierre Desforges and Moira Galbraith, report on microplastic particles found in two key species of zooplankton found in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: copepods and euphausiids.

Addendum to «Editorial Retraction of the Report «Environmentally relevant concentrations of microplastic particles influence larval fish ecology,» by O. M. Lönnstedt and P. Eklöv»

They look at the proposal for a study — commissioned by the council — to be conducted by UC — Santa Barbara graduate students about the possible effects of microplastics from Patagonia's recycled polyester materials entering the water supply after washing.

Those little pieces of plastic, known as microplastics, can last hundreds of years and were detected in 88 % of the ocean surface sampled during the Malaspina Expedition 2010.»

A new study sheds light on the magnitude of microplastic pollution in our oceans.

According to news sources, such as the BBC, researchers at State University of New York in Fredonia found microplastic particles in nearly all of 250 bottled waters bought in nine different countries.

Scientists have shown that the Bulgarian Black Sea coast is among the most polluted with microplastics in the world.

Mussels from the Arctic seas to China are testing positive for microplastic contamination, which not only threatens their well - being but could make its way into human diets, too.

Those pieces of plastic in our local waterways break down into microplastics which can then be eaten or swallowed by sea life and fish.

The existence of so - called microplastics in marine environments is not, in itself, a revelation.

According to a study commissioned by Orb Media, a global consortium of journalists, samples from 93 per cent of 259 bottles contained microplastic particles — an average of 10 particles wider than 100 micrometres, or roughly the width of a human hair, per litre.

Humans also ingest microplastics via food: they have already been detected not only in fish and seafood, but also in salt, sugar and beer.

The highest levels of microplastic contamination were found in the United States, where 94 percent of the samples were contaminated.

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The levels were so high that scientists are revising up their estimates for global marine microplastic pollution.

«The great spatial heterogeneity of microplastics at large and mesoscales makes it difficult to extrapolate local monitoring data to larger areas,» Nerland explains.

The fishes» guts included microplastic fragments and strands from fishing nets, although in amounts too small to cause problems for large fish.

Two Swedish fish researchers, with the aid of five colleagues, have alleged fraud in a study published in June 2016 in Science on how microplastics affect larval fish.

One possible risk from eating microplastics may not be due to the plastic itself.

The two biggest land - based sources are laundering synthetic clothing and the abrasion of tires while driving, making up two - thirds of all primary microplastics released.

These findings are worrying, as the affected fish could spread microplastics throughout the ocean.

The ways microplastics enter our water supply are surprising.

These figures are of concern since the effects of microplastics accumulating in agricultural soils are unknown.

New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand is urging federal regulators to ban microplastics, a move that state environmental advocates are hoping can move legislation forward in Albany.

This data is necessary to be able to respond effectively to contamination by microplastics and the risk they pose to terrestrial ecosystems — where, after all, most plastic waste that enters the environment accumulates.

It is unclear how microplastics affect the organisms that eat them.

Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research surveyed five regions in the Arctic Ocean and found up to 12,000 pieces of microplastics per liter of sea ice.

While soaking in sea salt can help your body to detox, research is now showing that due to increased plastic pollution in our oceans, our salt now contains traces of toxic microplastics made up of pigments, amorphous carbon, and plastic polymers.

Between Basel and Rotterdam, the Rhine has one of the highest microplastics pollution so far measured in rivers, with the Rhine - Ruhr metropolitan area showing peak numbers of up to four times the average.

Cummins said the 2018 timeline is a bit long, but the organization could live with that date as a compromise to see microplastics banned nation - wide.

«To our knowledge there are no documented reports of the direct effects of microplastic ingestion on wild organisms.

Since the results indicate that the amount of hazardous microplastics is set to increase more than tenfold if left to fragment, the time to start is now.»

It is simply not worth the risk, exposing baby to dangerous things like microplastics, mercury poisoning, worms, and other nasty things.

They break up into tiny microplastics that end up in the ocean and consumed by wildlife, often causing death and otherwise bonding with toxic pesticides and pollutants that move up the food chain and into our seafood.

They believe the results are an example of marine wildlife actually contributing to the spread of microplastics within the marine environment, rather than them simply being emitted from the water supply or forming through the physical and chemical break down of larger items.

Earthworms, for example, make their burrows differently when microplastics are present in the soil, affecting the earthworm's fitness and the soil condition.

«We recorded one of the highest frequencies of microplastics among fish species globally,» says Wieczorek.

Syberg has studied this so - called «vector» effect where microplastic acts as a transporter of toxic chemicals.

«If we assume an average microplastics concentration on the day we took the water sample in Rees, we can say that the Rhine contributes a daily load of more than 191 million plastic particles to the North Sea, and that only takes into account the surface.

But the researchers suspect that the creatures» poop, as well as their mucus houses, could transfer microplastics from the water's surface to the depths of the sea (along with nutrients such as carbon that cycle through the environment).

So far, however, there has been no reliable knowledge as to whether microplastic particles in aquatic ecosystems promote the development of special bacterial communities or even the spread of pathogens.

This image shows microplastic fragments and pre-production pellets collected from a sandy shoreline in Europe; these items are continually fragmenting in the environment.

«We believe our study has highlighted the need to reduce the amount of plastic waste and therefore microplastics which enter our seas,» says Tamara Galloway of the University of Exeter.

INCA Microplastics is an important tool for risk assessment and evaluating sludge management scenarios.

Secondary microplastics originate from the «degradation of larger plastic items into smaller plastic fragments once exposed to marine environment.

Studies have shown that toxins contained in microplastics leach into the tissues of marine life, and there are concerns that this could impact the health of human seafood eaters.

Young fish are getting hooked on consuming microplastic particles instead of their usual diet of zooplankton, a new Swedish study has warned.

Sewage sludge is then often applied to fields as fertilizer, meaning that several thousand tons of microplastics end up in our soils each year.