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1. Microplastic pollutants
by Crawford, Christopher B and Quinn, Brian
2016, ISBN 9780128094068, xviii, 315 pages
Microplastic Pollutants introduces the reader to the growing problem of microplastic pollution in the aquatic environment and is the first ever book dedicated... 
Water | Pollution | Matières plastiques | Aspect de l'environnement | Eau | Environmental aspects | Plastics | Biology, life sciences | Microplastics
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2. Plastic soup
: an atlas of ocean pollution
by Roscam Abbing, Michiel and Tessera Translations
2019, ISBN 1642830089, 124 pages
Waste disposal in the ocean | Élimination dans la mer | Débris marins en plastique | Matières plastiques | Aspect de l'environnement | Environmental aspects | Plastic marine debris | Déchets | Plastic scrap
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3. Aquatic pollution
: an introductory text
by Laws, Edward A
2000, 3rd ed., ISBN 9780471348757, xiv, 639
Water | Measurement | Pollution
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4. Full Text A national assessment of the effect of intensive agro-land use practices on nonpoint source pollution using emission scenarios and geo-spatial data
by Zhuo, Dong and Zhuo, Dong and Liu, Liming and Liu, Liming and Yu, Huirong and Yu, Huirong and Yuan, Chengcheng and Yuan, Chengcheng
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, ISSN 0944-1344, 1/2018, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 1683 - 1705
China’s intensive agriculture has led to a broad range of adverse impacts upon ecosystems and thereby caused environmental quality degradation. One of the... 
Environmental Health | Ecotoxicology | Straw burning | Land use | Scenario | Environment, general | Pesticide | Nonpoint source pollution | Environment | Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution | Agricultural plastic film | Environmental Chemistry | Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution | Nutrient erosion loss | EXPORT COEFFICIENT MODEL | SOILS | CHINA | NITROGEN-BALANCE | AGRICULTURAL LAND | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | NUTRIENT AUDITS | TAIHU BASIN | DIFFUSE | RISK-ASSESSMENT | Non-Point Source Pollution - analysis | Geographic Information Systems | Agriculture - statistics & numerical data | China | Humans | Environmental Monitoring - methods | Soil - chemistry | Spatio-Temporal Analysis | Remote Sensing Technology | Non-Point Source Pollution - statistics & numerical data | Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis | Usage | Valuation | Analysis | Geospatial data | Harvesting | Environmental aspects | Non-point source pollution | Real property | Agricultural pollution | Environmental policy | Soil pollution | Nutrient release | Loads (forces) | Marine environment | Load distribution (forces) | Pollution | Arable land | Nonpoint pollution sources | Agricultural chemicals | Stress concentration | Agricultural management | Pollution sources | Intensive farming | Land pollution | Agricultural economics | Emissions | Environmental quality | Nutrient loss | Spatial data | Incineration | Nonpoint pollution | Crop residues | Acetochlor | Wheat | Agricultural runoff | Pollution load | Spatial discrimination | Emission | Straw | Land management | Nutrient loading | Agrochemicals | Nutrients | Soil contamination | Biodegradation | Rural land use | Pesticides | Phosphorus | Data processing | Nitrogen | Environmental impact | Contamination | Burning | Pesticide residues | Environmental degradation | Air pollution | Water pollution | Plastics
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5. Full Text Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments
by Van Cauwenberghe, Lisbeth and Vanreusel, Ann and Mees, Jan and Janssen, Colin R
Environmental Pollution, ISSN 0269-7491, 11/2013, Volume 182, pp. 495 - 499
Microplastics are small plastic particles (<1 mm) originating from the degradation of larger plastic debris. These microplastics have been accumulating in the... 
Deep sea | Pollution | Microplastics | Sediment | SYSTEM | PARTICLES | GYRE | ATLANTIC | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | FLOOR | MYTILUS-EDULIS L | INGESTION | MUSSEL | MARINE-ENVIRONMENT | ACCUMULATION | Geologic Sediments - chemistry | Environmental Monitoring | Water Pollution, Chemical - statistics & numerical data | Plastics - analysis | Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis | Environmental aspects | Sediments (Geology) | Index Medicus | Marine environments | Oceans | Continental shelves | Pollution abatement | Water pollution | Sediments | Deep sea environments
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6. Junk raft
: an ocean voyage and a rising tide of activism to fight plastic pollution
by Eriksen, Marcus, 1967- author
2017, ISBN 0807056405, xi, 225 pages
"An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the... 
Environmental aspects | Plastic marine debris | Microplastics | Marine pollution | Eriksen, Marcus, 1967- Travel
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7. Marine anthropogenic litter
by Bergmann, Melanie, editor of compilation and Klages, Michael, editor of compilation and Gutow, Lars, editor of compilation and Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, issuing body and Göteborgs universitet
2015, 2015, ISBN 3319165097, xviii, 447 pages
Freshwater & Marine Ecology 
Marine ecology | Marine pollution | Marine organisms | Effect of human beings on | Environmental aspects | Ocean | Plastic marine debris | Social aspects | Marine debris | Freshwater & Marine Ecology | Aquatic biology | Life Sciences
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8. Full Text Microplastic Pollution in Table Salts from China
by Yang, Dongqi and Shi, Huahong and Li, Lan and Li, Jiana and Jabeen, Khalida and Kolandhasamy, Prabhu
Environmental Science & Technology, ISSN 0013-936X, 11/2015, Volume 49, Issue 22, pp. 13622 - 13627
Microplastics have been found in seas all over the world. We hypothesize that sea salts might contain microplastics, because they are directly supplied by... 
1ST OBSERVATIONS | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | IMPACT | PARTICLES | ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL | SEDIMENTS | MARINE-ENVIRONMENT | BIVALVES | IDENTIFICATION | SPATIAL-DISTRIBUTION | DEBRIS | ESTUARY | Food Contamination - analysis | China | Environmental Monitoring - methods | Polyethylene - analysis | Lakes - chemistry | Seawater - chemistry | Plastics - analysis | Sodium Chloride, Dietary | Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis
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9. Full Text Plastic Pollution
by Christopher K. Pham and Fran and Julia Reisser
2017, ISBN 2889453308
The presence, at sea, of large amounts of plastic and microplastics, which are sometimes invisible and results from the fragmentation of larger debris,... 
modeling | impact | Lagrangian transport | Plastic | Microplastics | Marine Litter | lakes | Plastic pollution
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10. Full Text Microplastic pollution in St. Lawrence River sediments
by Castañeda, Rowshyra A and Avlijas, Suncica and Anouk Simard, M and Ricciardi, Anthony
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, ISSN 0706-652X, 2014, Volume 71, Issue 12, pp. 1767 - 1771
Although widely detected in marine ecosystems, microplastic pollution has only recently been documented in freshwater environments, almost exclusively in... 
GREAT-LAKES | CLEANSERS | FISHERIES | MYTILUS-EDULIS L | PARTICLES | PLASTIC DEBRIS | MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | MARINE-ENVIRONMENT | FISH | CONTAMINATION | IDENTIFICATION | SEA | Environmental aspects | Plastics | Sediments (Geology)
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11. Full Text 'White revolution' to 'white pollution' - Agricultural plastic film mulch in China
by Liu, E.K and He, W.Q and Yan, C.R
Environmental Research Letters, ISSN 1748-9318, 09/2014, Volume 9, Issue 9, p. 91001
Plastic film mulching has played an important role in Chinese agriculture due to its soil warming and moisture conservation effects. With the help of plastic... 
control pollution | agricultural plastic film | white pollution | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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12. Full Text Microplastic pollution in lakes and lake shoreline sediments – A case study on Lake Bolsena and Lake Chiusi (central Italy)
by Fischer, Elke Kerstin and Paglialonga, Lisa and Czech, Elisa and Tamminga, Matthias
Environmental Pollution, ISSN 0269-7491, 06/2016, Volume 213, pp. 648 - 657
Rivers and effluents have been identified as major pathways for microplastics of terrestrial sources. Moreover, lakes of different dimensions and even in... 
Lake Chiusi | Microplastics | Lakeshore sediments | Lake Bolsena | Plastic pollution | PLASTIC DEBRIS | OCEAN | ENVIRONMENT | PASSIVE BUOYANT TRACERS | ZOOPLANKTON | MYTILUS-EDULIS | MARINE LITTER | GREAT-LAKES | SEA-TURTLES | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | INGESTION | Particle Size | Wind | Environmental Monitoring | Particulate Matter - analysis | Geologic Sediments - analysis | Italy | Lakes - analysis | Plastics - analysis | Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis | Case studies | Environmental aspects | Trawling | Analysis | Sediments (Geology) | Silt | Aquatic resources
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13. Full Text Solutions to microplastic pollution – Removal of microplastics from wastewater effluent with advanced wastewater treatment technologies
by Talvitie, Julia and Mikola, Anna and Koistinen, Arto and Setälä, Outi
Water Research, ISSN 0043-1354, 10/2017, Volume 123, pp. 401 - 407
Conventional wastewater treatment with primary and secondary treatment processes efficiently remove microplastics (MPs) from the wastewater. Despite the... 
Wastewater effluent | Microplastics | MBR | Tertiary treatments | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | POLLUTANTS | ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL | TREATMENT PLANTS | PLASTIC DEBRIS | WATER RESOURCES | Water Pollutants, Chemical - chemistry | Waste Disposal, Fluid | Waste Water | Filtration | Plastics | Polyethylene | Sewage | Purification | Technology | Index Medicus
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14. Plastic ocean
: how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans
by Moore, Charles, 1947 and Phillips, Cassandra
2011, ISBN 1583334246, x, 358 p., [8] p. of plates
In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu for California after competing in a trans-Pacific race. When he and his crew took a shortcut... 
Waste disposal in the ocean | Marine pollution | Ships | Law and legislation | Environmental aspects | Plastic marine debris | Waste disposal | Government policy | Plastic scrap
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15. Full Text Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis spp.) as sentinel organisms in coastal pollution monitoring: A review
by Beyer, Jonny and Green, Norman W and Brooks, Steven and Allan, Ian J and Ruus, Anders and Gomes, Tânia and Bråte, Inger Lise N and Schøyen, Merete
Marine Environmental Research, ISSN 0141-1136, 09/2017, Volume 130, pp. 338 - 365
The blue mussel ( spp.) is widely used as a bioindicator for monitoring of coastal water pollution (mussel watch programs). Herein we provide a review of this... 
Blue mussels | Pollution monitoring | Sentinels | FIELD TRANSLOCATION EXPERIMENT | ENVIRONMENTAL RISK-ASSESSMENT | POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS | BIOACCUMULATION-DEPURATION KINETICS | POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS | DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS | SEMIPERMEABLE-MEMBRANE DEVICES | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | INTEGRATED BIOMARKER RESPONSE | MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | MARINE BIVALVE MYTILUS | TOXICOLOGY | GLUTATHIONE-S-TRANSFERASE | Water Pollutants, Chemical | Environmental Monitoring | Animals | Climate Change | Mytilus edulis | Mytilus | Sentinel Species | Plastics | Water pollution | Indicators (Biology) | Climatic changes | Mussels | Air pollution | Food contamination
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