Journal
WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION
Volume 230, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-019-4320-9
Keywords
Microplastics; Release; Source; Fragmentation; Hazards
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFC0505701]
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Despite the controversy, the ecological risk of microplastics research has increased sharply from only one in 1966 to 495 in 2018, according to Web of Science with microplastics as keyword. To date, an upward trend of global microplastics mass emission was confirmed by many environmental scientists. The ocean is the ultimate destination of land-based microplastics sources; therefore, most of efforts were concentrated on microplastics in aquatic environment. In this brief article, the global release of microplastics and flux into the ocean in the recent decade were estimated roughly. The plastics fragmentation in the marine environment only accounted for 22% of total microplastics release (assuming defined emission rate per capita and fragmentation rate of plastics). Future research is needed for microplastics generation and retention in the terrestrial system, especially indoor environments. The accumulated microplastics over the environmental self-purification capacity certainly increases stress for the marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystem.
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