TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crawford,Christopher Blair
AU  - Quinn,Brian
TI  - Microplastic pollutants
SN  - 0128094060
AV  - TD427.P62 C73 2017
U1  - 363.739/4 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Microplastics
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Water
KW  - Pollution
KW  - Micropollutants
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. The emergence of plastics -- 2. The contemporary history of plastics -- 3. Plastic production, waste and legislation -- 4. Physiochemical properties and degradation -- 5. Microplastics, standardisation and spatial distribution -- 6. The interactions of microplastics and chemical pollutants -- 7. The biological impacts and effects of contaminated microplastics -- 8. Microplastic collection techniques -- 9. Microplastic separation techniques -- 10. Microplastic identification techniques
N2  - Microplastic Pollutants introduces the reader to the growing problem of microplastic pollution in the aquatic environment and is the first ever book dedicated exclusively to the subject of microplastics. Importantly, this timely full-colour illustrated multidisciplinary book highlights the very recent realization that microplastics may transport toxic chemicals into food chains around the world
ER  -