Plastics in the marine environment: The dark side of a modern gift

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 220, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-44

  Hammer, Jort ^a   Kraak, Michiel H S ^a   Parsons, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC;

BIOREMEDIATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LEGAL ASPECT; RECYCLING; REVIEW; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ECOTOXICOLOGY; PLASTICS; RECYCLING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84861731406     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3414-6_1     Document Type: Review

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