Hazardous Chemicals Associated with Plastics in the Marine Environment

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Takada, Hideshige (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Karapanagioti, Hrissi K. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 78
• Θέματα: Environmental chemistry.; Polymers .; Ecotoxicology.; Water quality.; Water pollution.; Aquatic ecology .; Environmental Chemistry.; Polymer Sciences.; Water Quality/Water Pollution.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.

This volume consists of 15 chapters and focuses on hazardous chemicals, how they are associated with plastics, and their environmental risks. It includes background information on plastics and additives chemistry, and their observed or potential effects on living organisms as well as the oceanograph...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.