Opinion: We need better data about the environmental persistence of plastic goods

Rethinking microplastics as a diverse contaminant suite

(2019) Chelsea M. Rochman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Leveraging Lessons Learned from Black Carbon Research to Study Plastics in the Environment

(2019) Ulrich M. Hanke et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Effects of Leachates from UV-Weathered Microplastic in Cell-Based Bioassays

(2019) Christoph D. Rummel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Towards the Development and Application of an Environmental Risk Assessment Framework for Microplastic

(2019) Todd Gouin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Sunlight Converts Polystyrene to Carbon Dioxide and Dissolved Organic Carbon

(2019) Collin P. Ward et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Photochemical dissolution of buoyant microplastics to dissolved organic carbon: Rates and microbial impacts

(2019) Lixin Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Identification of Chain Scission Products Released to Water by Plastic Exposed to Ultraviolet Light

(2018) Berit Gewert et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Phototransformation of Plastic Containing Brominated Flame Retardants: Enhanced Fragmentation and Release of Photoproducts to Water and Air

(2018) Amina Khaled et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Production of methane and ethylene from plastic in the environment

(2018) Sarah-Jeanne Royer et al.   PLoS One

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

(2017) Roland Geyer et al.   Science Advances

Modeling marine surface microplastic transport to assess optimal removal locations

(2016) Peter Sherman et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

A quantification of the standing stock of macro-debris in Majuro lagoon and its effect on hard coral communities

(2011) Zoe T. Richards et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN