Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 145, Issue -, Pages 36-41Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.05.028
Keywords
Marine plastic debris; Plastic ingestion; Additive chemicals; Flame retardants; UV stabilizers; Styrene oligomers
Funding
- Ministry of Education and Culture of Japan [26-8120, 16H01768]
- Environment Research and Technology Development Fund [SII-2-2]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H01768] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The risk of marine organisms ingesting plastics has become a growing concern due to hazard chemicals in plastics. To identify compounds to which seabirds potentially have substantial exposure, 194 plastics fragments and pellets ingested by seabirds, i.e., northern fulmars from the Faroe Islands, and laysan albatross and black footed albatross from Mukojima Island, were analyzed piece by piece. Four kinds of UV stabilizers, 2 brominated flame retardants, and styrene oligomers were detected at detection frequencies of 4.6%, 2.1%, and 2.1%, respectively. Concentrations ranging from not detected (n.d.) - 1700 mu g/g were measured for UV stabilizers, n.d. 1100 mu g/g for flame retardants, and n.d. - 3200 mu g/g for styrene oligomers. We found that these chemicals could be retained in plastics during drifting and fragmentation in the ocean and transported to seabirds. This type of transport via plastics can be direct pathway that introduces hazardous compounds to marine organisms.
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