Plastic pollution in Swiss surface waters: Nature and concentrations, interaction with pollutants

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 582-591

  Faure, Florian ^a   Demars, Colin ^a   Wieser, Olivier ^a   Kunz, Manuel ^b   De Alencastro, Luiz Felippe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Bundesamt fur Umweltschutz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYDROPHOBICITY; MARINE POLLUTION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PLASTIC; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

EUROPE;

AVES; MANTA; PISCES;

EID: 84942579555     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN14218     Document Type: Article

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