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    Ingestion of Plastics by Marine Organisms

    Many marine organisms ingest plastic items, providing a potential mechanism for the transfer and accumulation of hazardous chemicals associated with plastics. This chapter summarises the range of organisms kno...

    Peter G. Ryan in Hazardous Chemicals Associated with Plastics in the Marine Environment (2019)

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    A Brief History of Marine Litter Research

    This chapter traces the history of marine litter research from anecdotal reports of entanglement and plastic ingestion in the 1960s to the current focus on microplastics and their role in the transfer of persi...

    Peter G. Ryan in Marine Anthropogenic Litter (2015)

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