Toxic Heavy Metals, Discarded Plastics and Aquatic Systems

Heavy Metal:  The New Toxic Danger Posed by Ocean Plastic Trash  (Danielle BEURTEAUX, Water Deeply; April  3, 2018)

https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2018/04/03/heavy-metal-the-new-toxic-danger-posed-by-ocean-plastic-trash

Featured Research Articles:

Macro and micro plastics sorb and desorb metals and act as a point source of trace metals to coastal ecosystems  (MUNIER and BENDELL, 2018)

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191759&type=printable

Long-Term Sorption of Metals is Similar among Plastic Types:  Implications for Plastic Debris in Aquatic Environments                         (ROCHMAN et al., 2014)

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0085433&type=printable

Additional Research Studies:

Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environments:  Aggregation, Deposition and Enhanced Contaminant Transport  (ALIMI et al., 2018)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.7b05559?src=recsys&journalCode=esthag

Microplastics as vectors for heavy metal contamination from the marine environment  (BRENNECKE et al., 2016)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dennis_Brennecke2/publication/286865153_Microplastics_as_vector_for_heavy_metal_contamination_from_the_marine_environment/links/59e467be458515393d60e0cd/Microplastics-as-vector-for-heavy-metal-contamination-from-the-marine-environment.pdf?origin=publication_detail

Marine Anthropogenic Litter                                                                              (BERGMAN et al., Editors; Springer, 2015; pp. 456)

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-16510-3.pdf