
Microplastic Pollutants
Description
Key Features
- A detailed chronological history of plastic materials from their creation until the present day
- Extensive review and discussion of the existing literature on the interactions of microplastics with chemical pollutants and their effects on aquatic life
- Explanation and provision of the techniques used for the detection, separation and identification of microplastics
- Detailed multidisciplinary information on the way in which plastic materials and microplastics behave in the aquatic environment
- The provision of extensive multidisciplinary reference data relating to plastic materials and microplastics
Readership
Environmental scientists, ecotoxicologists, ecologists, environmental managers, fisheries, water suppliers, waste water treatment, pollution, marine biologists, environmental chemists, industry, engineers, citizens ,media and policy makers
Table of Contents
1. The emergence of plastics
2. The contemporary history of plastics
3. Plastic production, waste and legislation
4. Physiochemical properties and degradation
5. Microplastics, standardisation and spatial distribution
6. The interactions of microplastics and chemical pollutants
7. The biological impacts and effects of contaminated microplastics
8. Microplastic collection techniques
9. Microplastic separation techniques
10. Microplastic identification techniques
Product details
- No. of pages: 336
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier Science 2016
- Published: September 1, 2016
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128094068
- eBook ISBN: 9780128104699