Journal
TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages 47-53Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2014.10.011
Keywords
Debris; Detection; Environment; Marine environment; Microplastic; Plastic; Sampling; Seawater; Sediment; Water
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- Portuguese Science Foundation (Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia) under QREN - POPH funds [SFRH/BPD/65410/2009]
- European Social Fund
- European Funds through COMPETE
- National Funds through the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) [PEst-C/MAR/LA0017/2013]
- FEDER under the Programa de Cooperacao Territorial Europeia INTERREG IV B SUDOE within the framework of the research project ORQUE SUDOE [SOE3/P2/F591]
- Portuguese National Funds from MCTES
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Plastics can be found in food packaging, shopping bags, and household items, such as toothbrushes and pens, and facial cleansers. Due to the high disposability and low recovery of discharged materials, plastics materials have become debris accumulating in the environment. Microplastics have a dimension <5 mm and possess physico-chemical properties (e.g., size, density, color and chemical composition) that are key contributors to their bioavailability to organisms. This review addresses the analytical approaches to characterization and quantification of microplastics in the environment and discusses recent studies on their occurrence, fate, and behavior. This critical overview includes a general assessment of sampling and sample handling, and compares methods for morphological and physical classification, and methodologies for chemical characterization and quantification of the microplastics. Finally, this review addresses the advantages and the disadvantages of these techniques, and comments on future applications and potential research interest within this field. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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