Microplastic and macroplastic ingestion by a deep diving, oceanic cetacean: The True's beaked whale Mesoplodon mirus

Short-term exposure with high concentrations of pristine microplastic particles leads to immobilisation of Daphnia magna

“…Ingestion of microplastics from the marine environment has been observed for animals of different trophic levels like zooplankton (Desforges et al, 2015), fish (Lusher et al, 2013), corals (Hall et al, 2015), fur seals (Eriksson and Burton, 2003) or whales (Besseling et al, 2015;Lusher et al, 2015). Presence of microplastics in organisms on a higher food chain level like in fur seals indicates microplastic uptake also through trophic transfer in the environment (Eriksson and Burton, 2003).…”

“Plastic ocean”: What about cancer?

“…Timely appraisals and critical assessments (Kwon et al, 2014;Law and Thompson, 2014;Jambeck et al, 2015;Lusher et al, 2015; van Franeker and Law, 2015) leave no doubt that the rapidly increasing marine plastic pollution poses immense challenges. Toxicological concerns are voiced already (Glausiusz, 2014, Law andThompson, 2014;Seltenrich, 2015) but an examination of possible links between synthetic polymers and cancers would seem equally important.…”

Exploring biodegradable polymer production from marine microbes

“…Alarming rates of marine pollution were critically assessed [4,13,14]. This uncontrolled marine plastic pollution possesses huge toxicological issues that need to be addressed.…”