Volume Iii Issue I Spring 2015

Laboratory Methods for the Analysis of Microplastics in ...

emerging issue. There is an increased interest to understand the impacts of microplastics on aquatic wildlife, as the impacts still remain poorly understood (Thompson et al. 2004, Browne et al. 2007). Microplastics were first noted in North America as spherules in plankton tows along the coast of New England in the 1970s (Carpenter et al. 1972).

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