Paint particles in the marine environment: An overlooked component of microplastics
Because paint particles consist of a resin (polymer) combined with one or more additives, they bear compositional similarities with microplastics. Despite these shared characteristics, however, paint particles are often undetected, deliberately overlooked or evade classification in the pool of micro...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Water Research X |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589914721000232 |