Hazardous Chemicals Associated with Plastics in the Marine Environment

Additives and Chemicals in Plastics.- Food Containers and Packaging Materials as Possible Source of Hazardous Chemicals to Food.- Release of additives and monomers from plastic wastes.- Degradation of various plastics in the environment.- Occurrence of Marine Litter in the Marine Environment: A World Panorama of Floating and Seafloor Plastics.- Sources, Distribution, and Fate of Microscopic Plastics in Marine Environments.- Nature of Plastic Marine Pollution in the Subtropical Gyres.- Hazardous chemicals in plastics in marine environments: International Pellet Watch.- Sorption of hydrophobic organic compounds to plastics in marine environments: equilibrium.- Sorption of Hydrophobic Organic Compounds to Plastics in the Marine Environment: Sorption and Desorption Kinetics.- Biofilms on Plastic Debris and Their Influence on Marine Nutrient Cycling, Productivity, and Hazardous Chemical Mobility.- Ingestion of plastics by marine organisms.- Transfer of hazardous chemicals from ingested plastics to higher-trophic level organisms.- The Role of Plastic Debris as Another Source of Hazardous Chemicals in Lower-Trophic Level Organisms.- Conclusions of "Hazardous Chemicals Associated with Plastics in Environment".- Erratum to: Food Containers and Packaging Materials as Possible Source of Hazardous Chemicals to Food.