{"id":32023,"date":"2014-03-15T17:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/2014\/03\/15\/301\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T21:39:09","slug":"301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/objekt-der-untersuchung-kunststoff-object-of-research-plastics-en\/2014\/301\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastics highly concentrated in Australian waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencewa.net.au\/topics\/fisheries-a-water\/item\/2674-plastics-highly-concentrated-in-australian-waters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sciencewa.net.au\/topics\/fisheries-a-water\/item\/2674-plastics-highly-concentrated-in-australian-waters.html<\/a>\n\nPlastics highly concentrated in Australian waters\nThursday, 13 February 2014 10:00\n\nWritten By Rebecca Graham\n\nMICROPLASTICS less than 5mm in diameter are contaminating Australia&amp;rsquo;s\nsea surface at a concentration of more than 4000 pieces per square\nkilometre, according to research from UWA and CSIRO&amp;#39;s Wealth from Oceans\nFlagship.\n\nOceanographer and lead researcher Julia Reisser a PhD candidate at UWA&amp;rsquo;s\nOceans Institute and School of Environmental Systems Engineering, says\nthis information is an important step in quantifying the plastic hazards\nthat threaten Australian species and marine regions.\n\n&amp;ldquo;The high number of small plastics present in our oceans is a toxic\nthreat to marine organisms and environments,&amp;rdquo; she says.\n\n&amp;ldquo;They contain hazardous ingredients from manufacturing, like Bisphenol\nA, as well as pollutants adsorbed from the seawater, which are\nbioaccumulated up the marine food chain.\n\n&amp;ldquo;Until now, we had little idea how much these tiny plastics were present\nin Australian waters.&amp;rdquo;\n\nMs Reisser conducted sea surface net tows at 57 locations around\nAustralia, enabling her to collect the characteristics and concentration\nof marine plastics in Australian waters.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.sciencewa.net.au\/topics\/fisheries-a-water\/item\/2674-plastics-highly-concentrated-in-australian-waters.html Plastics highly concentrated in Australian waters Thursday, 13 February 2014 10:00 Written By Rebecca Graham MICROPLASTICS less than 5mm in diameter are contaminating Australia&amp;rsquo;s sea surface at a concentration of more than 4000 pieces per square kilometre, according to research from UWA and CSIRO&amp;#39;s Wealth from Oceans Flagship. Oceanographer and lead researcher Julia Reisser a PhD candidate at UWA&amp;rsquo;s Oceans Institute and School of Environmental Systems Engineering, says this information is an important step in quantifying the plastic hazards that threaten Australian species and marine regions. &amp;ldquo;The high number of small plastics present in our oceans is a toxic threat to marine organisms and environments,&amp;rdquo; she says. &amp;ldquo;They contain hazardous ingredients from manufacturing, like Bisphenol A, as well as pollutants adsorbed from the seawater, which are bioaccumulated up the marine food chain. &amp;ldquo;Until now, we had little idea how much these tiny plastics were present in Australian waters.&amp;rdquo; Ms Reisser conducted sea surface net tows at 57 locations around Australia, enabling her to collect the characteristics and concentration of marine plastics in Australian waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504,3488,3445],"tags":[3632,1445,3717,1587],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Plastics highly concentrated in Australian waters - One Earth - One Ocean e. 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