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MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
卷 180, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113761
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Microplastics; Nanoplastics; Weathering; Seawater; Fragmentation
The fragmentation of plastic macro-debris into microplastics is mainly caused by extensive oxidation under solar UV radiation. The heterogeneity in oxidative potential leads to a bias in weathering and fragmentation in different marine zones. Microplastics found in seawater are more likely to originate from beaches or land, rather than from weathering of floating plastics.
Fragmentation of plastic macro-debris into secondary microplastics [MPs] is primarily the result of their extensive oxidation under exposure to solar UV radiation. The heterogeneity in the marine zones with respect to their oxidative potential for plastics, introduces a marked zonal bias in their ability to carry out weathering and fragmentation. Comparing the oxidative environments of the beach zone and the upper pelagic zone with floating plastics, it is argued that the latter tends to preclude photooxidative fragmentation. Abundant MPs found in seawater are therefore more likely to have originated on beaches or land and subsequently transferred to the water, as opposed to being generated by weathering of floating plastic stock. Laboratory-accelerated weathering of plastics in seawater obtains efficient micro-fragmentation and in some instances photo-dissolution of the plastic debris, but these results cannot be reliably extrapolated to natural weathering conditions in the ocean environment.
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