Bank M. Microplastic in the Environment. Pattern and Process 2022 torrent

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The science of microplastic and plastic pollution is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field and touches on a wide array of academic and scientifc disciplines, including polymer and material sciences, environmental toxicology and chemistry, biogeochemistry, economics, sociology, public health, decision sciences, physics, global environmental change, and mathematics. At times while editing this book, I was struck by the speed and volume of new microplastic scientific publications and I often felt like I was dealing with an informational “moving target.” This is a true testament to the intense level of attention that this widespread environmental pollution issue has garnered in recent years. With this is mind, I focused this volume on existing knowledge gaps while also presenting and utilizing a holistic perspective to evaluate microplastic pollution across a suite of different ecosystem types. Only recently have scientists really begun to establish and employ a more holistic per spective to the study of microplastics in the environment, including investigations that have furthered the integration of multitiered approaches, especially by concomitantly using environmental chemistry, biology, and human health sciences.
1 The Microplastic Cycle: An Introduction to a Complex Issue
2 Analytical Chemistry of Plastic Debris: Sampling, Methods, and Instrumentation
3 Evaluating Microplastic Experimental Design and Exposure Studies in Aquatic Organisms
4 Microplastics in Terrestrial and Freshwater Environments
5 Marine Microplastics and Seafood: Implications for Food Security
6 Weight of Evidence for the Microplastic Vector Effect in the Context of Chemical Risk Assessment
7 Ecotoxicological Impacts of Micro- and Nanoplastics in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments
8 Dietary Exposure to Additives and Sorbed Contaminants from Ingested Microplastic Particles Through the Consumption of Fisheries and Aquaculture Products
9 The Microplastic-Antibiotic Resistance Connection
10 The United Nations Basel Convention’s Global Plastic Waste Partnership: History, Evolution and Progress
11 Solutions to Plastic Pollution: A Conceptual Framework to Tackle a Wicked Problem