{"id":27863,"date":"2021-06-21T18:47:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T16:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/2021\/06\/21\/lost-but-cant-be-neglected-huge-quantities-of-small-microplastics-hide-in-the-south-china-sea\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T07:49:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T05:49:01","slug":"lost-but-cant-be-neglected-huge-quantities-of-small-microplastics-hide-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/international-marine-litter-database-en-en\/2021\/lost-but-cant-be-neglected-huge-quantities-of-small-microplastics-hide-in-the-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost but can&#8217;t be neglected: Huge quantities of small microplastics hide in the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minggang Cai, Haixia He, Mengyang Liu, Siwei Li, Guowen Tang, Weimin Wang, Peng Huang,<br \/>\nGe Wei, Yan Lin, Bin Chen, Jiahui Hu, Zhengnan Cen,<\/p>\n<p>Lost but can&#8217;t be neglected: Huge quantities of small microplastics hide in the South China Sea,<\/p>\n<p>Science of The Total Environment, Volume 633, 15<br \/>\nAugust 2018, Pages 1206-1216, ISSN 0048-9697,<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p>Large quantities of microplastics with small particle sizes were found<br \/>\nin the South China Sea (SCS). The abundances of microplastics in<br \/>\nseawater were 0.045 \u00b1 0.093and 2569 \u00b1 1770 particles\/m3 according to the<br \/>\nbongo net and pumping sampling methods, respectively. Smaller-size<br \/>\nfractions (size &lt; 0.3 mm) contributed 92% of the number of microplastics<br \/>\nto the total load. Continental slope is the largest reservoir of<br \/>\nmicroplastics with an inventory of 295 tons. 21 polymer types were found<br \/>\nin the samples using the micro Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy<br \/>\n(FTIR), among which alkyds (22.5%) and polycaprolactone (PCL) (20.9%)<br \/>\naccounted for almost half of the total polymer content. Lighter plastics<br \/>\nwould not only concentrate upon the coastal area, being more likely to<br \/>\ndrift further into open seas with ocean currents. The distribution<br \/>\ncharacteristics showed that it was mainly controlled by terrestrial<br \/>\ninput of the Pearl River. This study, as the first report from SCS on<br \/>\nmicroplastics in water for its distribution and influence factors,<br \/>\nprovided impetus for further research on the transportation fate and the<br \/>\nbehavior of this emerging pollutant from coastal zone to the open<br \/>\noceans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1Optkv-LRAILdqPJ48-dE9f_mHc4TXMhL\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1Optkv-LRAILdqPJ48-dE9f_mHc4TXMhL<\/a><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2018.03.197.(https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0048969718309562)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minggang Cai, Haixia He, Mengyang Liu, Siwei Li, Guowen Tang, Weimin Wang, Peng Huang, Ge Wei, Yan Lin, Bin Chen, Jiahui Hu, Zhengnan Cen, Lost but can&#8217;t be neglected: Huge quantities of small microplastics hide in the South China Sea, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 633, 15 August 2018, Pages 1206-1216, ISSN 0048-9697, Abstract: Large quantities of microplastics with small particle sizes were found in the South China Sea (SCS). The abundances of microplastics in seawater were 0.045 \u00b1 0.093and 2569 \u00b1 1770 particles\/m3 according to the bongo net and pumping sampling methods, respectively. Smaller-size fractions (size &lt; 0.3 mm) contributed 92% of the number of microplastics to the total load. Continental slope is the largest reservoir of microplastics with an inventory of 295 tons. 21 polymer types were found in the samples using the micro Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), among which alkyds (22.5%) and polycaprolactone (PCL) (20.9%) accounted for almost half of the total polymer content. Lighter plastics would not only concentrate upon the coastal area, being more likely to drift further into open seas with ocean currents. The distribution characteristics showed that it was mainly controlled by terrestrial input of the Pearl River. This study, as the first report from SCS on microplastics in water for its distribution and influence factors, provided impetus for further research on the transportation fate and the behavior of this emerging pollutant from coastal zone to the open oceans. https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1Optkv-LRAILdqPJ48-dE9f_mHc4TXMhL https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2018.03.197.(https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0048969718309562)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2222],"tags":[1442,1443,1444,1445,1446,1447],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lost but can&#039;t be neglected: Huge quantities of small microplastics hide in the South China Sea - One Earth - One Ocean e. 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