Assessing the potential risk and relationship between microplastics and phthalates in surface seawater of a heavily human-impacted metropolitan bay in northern China.
Jiaozhou bay
Microplastics
Phthalates
Risk assessment
Surface seawater
Journal
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
ISSN: 1090-2414
Titre abrégé: Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7805381
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2020
Nov 2020
Historique:
received:
15
02
2020
revised:
20
06
2020
accepted:
22
07
2020
pubmed:
4
8
2020
medline:
21
10
2020
entrez:
4
8
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The impacts of microplastics (MPs) and phthalates (PAEs), a class of MP-associated contaminants, on the marine environment are not thoroughly understood despite concern over their adverse effects on humans and ecosystems. Field studies linking MPs and PAEs in seawater have not yet been reported. We investigate for the first time the correlation between MPs contamination and the presence of PAEs in the surface seawater of Jiaozhou Bay (JZB), a semi-enclosed metropolitan bay in northern China heavily impacted by human activity. The abundance of MPs, dominated by polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate mostly smaller than 2 mm, ranged between 24.44 items/m
Identifiants
pubmed: 32745786
pii: S0147-6513(20)30906-4
doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111067
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Microplastics
0
Phthalic Acids
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Dibutyl Phthalate
2286E5R2KE
phthalic acid
6O7F7IX66E
Polyethylene
9002-88-4
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
111067Informations de copyright
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