Regional distribution of styrene analogues generated from polystyrene degradation along the coastlines of the North-East Pacific Ocean and Hawaii

Kwon, Bum Gun; Saido, Katsuhiko; Koizumi, Koshiro; Sato, Hisakuni; Ogawa, Naoto; Chung, Seon Yong; Kusui, Takashi; Kodera, Yōichi; Kogure, Kazuhio

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2014.01.019

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“…POPs; Sinkonnen et al 2000;Dachs et al 2002), are persistent and bioaccumulative, and thus can be transported long distances via ocean currents (Law et al 2010;Maximenko et al 2012) or by the migration of ocean life. As such, plastics debris may play a role in the transport of sorbed chemical contaminants and chemical ingredients globally (Engler et al 2012;Cheng et al 2013;Endo et al 2013;Kwon et al 2014). …”

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The Complex Mixture, Fate and Toxicity of Chemicals Associated with Plastic Debris in the Marine Environment

Rochman

2015

Marine Anthropogenic Litter

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For decades we have learned about the physical hazards associated with plastic debris in the marine environment, but recently we are beginning to realize the chemical hazards. Assessing hazards associated with plastic in aquatic habitats is not simple, and requires knowledge regarding organisms that may be exposed, the exposure concentrations, the types of polymers comprising the debris, the length of time the debris was present in the aquatic environment (affecting the size, shape and fouling) and the locations and transport of the debris during that time period. Marine plastic debris is associated with a 'cocktail of chemicals', including chemicals added or produced during manufacturing and those present in the marine environment that accumulate onto the debris from surrounding seawater. This raises concerns regarding: (i) the complex mixture of chemical substances associated with marine plastic debris, (ii) the environmental fate of these chemicals to and from plastics in our oceans and (iii) how this mixture affects wildlife, as hundreds of species ingest this material in nature. The focus of this chapter is on the mixture of chemicals associated with marine plastic debris. Specifically, this chapter discusses the diversity of chemical ingredients, byproducts of manufacturing and sorbed chemical contaminants from the marine environment among plastic types, the role of marine plastic debris as a novel medium for environmental partitioning of chemical contaminants in the ocean and the toxic effects that may result from plastic debris in marine animals.

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The Complex Mixture, Fate and Toxicity of Chemicals Associated with Plastic Debris in the Marine Environment

Rochman

2015

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“…Duhec et al 2015;Ebbesmeyer et al, 2012;Kwon et al, 2014;Miao et al, 2000;Richards and Beger, 2011). We report the number, composition, differential distribution, implications, and management options of marine debris on the shores of the islets of St. Brandon's Rock, an isolated coral reef atoll located 400 km north of Mauritius and 1000 km east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean (Figure 1).…”

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The flip-or-flop boutique: Marine debris on the shores of St Brandon's rock, an isolated tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean

Bouwman

Evans

Cole

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Marine Environmental Research

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Highlights• Marine debris was studied on 15 islets of St. Brandon's Rock, Indian Ocean • Plastics made up 79% of 50 000 debris items at 0.74 items m -1 shore length Intact CFLs suggests product-facilitated long-range transport of mercury. We suspect that aggregated marine debris, scavenged by the islands from currents and gyres, could re-concentrate pollutants. SBR islets accumulated debris types in different proportions suggesting that many factors act variably on different debris types. Regular cleaning of selected islets will take care of most of the accumulated debris and may improve the ecology and tourism potential. However, arrangements and logistics require more study.

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“…Since the early 1970s [17], PS plastic pellets have been reported on the surface of the western North Atlantic Ocean [32]. However, other than counting the quantity of plastic debris [33][34][35][36], there is no reliable and objective method to monitor the extent of such pollution [30,34]. Plastic debris counting techniques can be easily influenced by differences in the sampling and detection methods, such as sea conditions (wave, wind, sunlight, and so on) and observer experience [3,35,36], causing biases [31,35,36].…”

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“…Polystyrene (PS) is of major concern, and is found abundantly at sea, has hazardous chemicals, and also is one of the 6 major polymers most produced and consumed, contributing to environmental pollution [1,5,30,31]. Since the early 1970s [17], PS plastic pellets have been reported on the surface of the western North Atlantic Ocean [32].…”

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Global styrene oligomers monitoring as new chemical contamination from polystyrene plastic marine pollution

Kwon

Koizumi

Chung

et al. 2015

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Regional distribution of styrene analogues generated from polystyrene degradation along the coastlines of the North-East Pacific Ocean and Hawaii

Cited by 76 publications

References 39 publications

The Complex Mixture, Fate and Toxicity of Chemicals Associated with Plastic Debris in the Marine Environment

The Complex Mixture, Fate and Toxicity of Chemicals Associated with Plastic Debris in the Marine Environment

The flip-or-flop boutique: Marine debris on the shores of St Brandon's rock, an isolated tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean

Global styrene oligomers monitoring as new chemical contamination from polystyrene plastic marine pollution

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