Erosion of rigid plastics in turbid (sandy) water: quantitative assessment for marine environments and formation of microplastics-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Erosion of rigid plastics in turbid (sandy) water: quantitative assessment for marine environments and formation of microplastics

Published:2024 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:2050-7887
Container-title:Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
language:en
Short-container-title:Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts

Author:

Al-Darraji Ali¹^ORCID,Oluwoye Ibukun²³^ORCID,Lagat Christopher⁴,Tanaka Shuhei³^ORCID,Barifcani Ahmed⁴

Affiliation:

1. Discipline of Chemical Engineering, WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia

2. Curtin Corrosion Centre, Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

3. Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

4. Discipline of Petroleum Engineering, WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia

Abstract

Mechanical degradation (erosion) of plastics in the marine environment has been reported in many literature studies but without quantitative information. Therefore, this study quantified the erosion of some plastics in the marine environment.

Funder

National Energy Resources Australia

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/EM/D4EM00122B

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