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Working Bibliography

Here is our current bibliography, which will be expanded upon as we continue to edit the page.

1. Akpan, Nsikan. "Microplastics Lodge in Crab Gills and Guts." Science News. N.p., 8 July 2014. Web. 17 Feb. 2015. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microplastics-lodge-crab-gills-and-guts

2. Goldstein, Miriam C., Marci Rosenberg, and Lanna Cheng. “Increased Oceanic Microplastic Debris Enhances Oviposition in an Endemic Pelagic Insect.”Biology Letters 8.5 (2012): 817–820. PMC. Web. 19 Feb. 2015. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440973/

3. Grossman, Elizabeth. "How Plastics from Your Clothes Can End up in Your Fish." Time. Time, 15 Jan. 2015. Web. 17 Feb. 2015. http://time.com/3669084/plastics-pollution-fish/

4. Leslie, HA. Review of Microplastics in Cosmetics. IVM Institute for Environmental Studies. July 2014. http://www.ivm.vu.nl/en/Images/Plastic%20ingredients%20in%20 Cosmetics%2007-2014%20FINAL_tcm53-409859.pdf

5. Seltenrich, Nate. “New Link in the Food Chain? Marine Plastic Pollution and Seafood Safety.” Environmental Health Perspectives 123.2 (2015): A34–A41.PMC. Web. 19 Feb. 2015. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314237/

6. Sundt, Peter and Schulze, Per-Erik (2014) Sources of microplastic-pollution to the marine environment. Report. 108pp. Mepex for the Norwegian Environment Agency. http://www.miljodirektoratet.no/no/Publikasjoner/2015/Januar1/Sources-of-microplastic-pollution-to-the-marine-environment/  Preceding unsigned comment added by Blekkspruten (talkcontribs) 03:54, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Stack0711 (talk) 16:48, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Course Assignment

We will be working on this throughout the 2015 spring semester Stack0711 (talk) 15:42, 17 February 2015 (UTC)


Summary of plans:

There is currently an existing article on Microplastics and thus we seek to expand upon it as well as flesh out areas of weakness. First, we plan to add to the introduction and go into a little bit of the history of microplastics - briefly how they’re made and drawing on the first recognition of their impacts. Next, we will add to the Classification section and go further into defining “nurdles” with the ultimate aim of replacing the page “plastic particle water pollution” - the current primary reservoir of information on “nurdles.” In order to give validity to the research articles and information we provide on microplastic studies, we also want to add a brief section on quantification or modes of measuring microplastic levels and effects (i.e. through plankton samples, sediment analyses, and so on). The sources section is quite thorough, but we want to provide a clearer picture of the “cycle” microplastics take from the original source, perhaps a commercial product, to some reservoir (like the ocean), back to the organism (human body). With a cohesive understanding of this process, we can delve deeper into the endocrine disruption pathways and get into the known/proposed (?) biological mechanism of action in the organism i.e. do they become integrated into tissues? (We are true science geeks at heart). Figures and diagrams could enhance this part, adding a nice visual to our slab of information. We want to further investigate the geographic distribution of endocrine-related effects, based on high-seafood consumption areas (i.e. do fishing towns have higher rates of microplastic-induced endocrine disruption?). Our last sections will focus on how negative effects of microplastics can be treated and how they can be removed from the environment, via treatment, bioremediation, or policies.  Preceding unsigned comment added by Mantareina (talkcontribs) 20:22, 21 February 2015 (UTC)


Proposing new lead section

1. Introduction + History (little bit) = how they’re made? link out to plastic manufacturing??

2. Classification -Nurdles

-Quantification = how we measure levels/effects of microplastics? (Microplastics are commonly studied in relation to (1) plankton samples, (2) sandy and muddy sediments, (3) vertebrate and invertebrate ingestion, and (4) chemical pollutant interactions. ); Source #1 Ivar do Sul

3. Sources (in marine and freshwater environments)

4. Endocrine Disruption

-Persistent organic pollutants

-biomagnification (link to this?)

-Figure diagramming biological mechanism?

-where do the microplastics go in the organism (i.e. do they become integrated into tissues?)

-Geographic distribution of endocrine-related effects

5. Remediation/Treatment/what’s being done to clean up? link out to garbage patch efforts?

6. Policy/Regulation/Legislation

→Can someone tell me what is the source for the table of "Pollutants and their effects on health"? There is a good amount of non-cited data there. I managed found the contributor in version history but he was banned for multi-account (which doesn't make any sense).112.120.58.206 (talk) 17:01, 4 March 2015 (UTC)OzzieTheHead

Industrial use?

I came to this article from Nurdle, and got there from Plastics extrusion. According to Nurble, microplastics are the small particles of solid plastic used in extrusion and injection molding processes, as seen here: . And yet this article deals exclusively with microplastics as an environmental hazard. The definition of microplastics needs to be unambiguously laid out, and then I suspect there will end up needing separate articles for the industrial pellets and for the environmental contaminants. Kierkkadon talk/contribs 14:15, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, the description you made is for pellets, which are considered as microplastics.203.198.250.166 (talk) 07:39, 6 February 2015 (UTC) 7:37 6 February 2015 (UTC)


Peer review 3/29 by Yogi44 (talk) 21:33, 30 March 2015 (UTC):

Introduction: -better distinguish primary vs secondary microplastics -end with more conclusive sentence

Classification: -Good job of relating them to things commonly used everyday, such as facial cleansers and cosmetics to draw attention of the reader

Sources: -Make sure to include the harmful effects or something more about each chemical from which the microplastics are made. For a person with little knowledge of chemistry, it may be to difficult to understand what "polymethyl methcrylate" is and what it does -Great job covering a broad spectrum of sources, such as natural calamities

Potential Impacts: -Your source is great from 2008, but maybe include something more recent as well

Persistent Organic Pollutants: I really enjoy the chart; possibly tie in a sentence or two to show its relation to microplastics

Policy: Great job explaining basic terms and future outlook for this product.Great job! Yogi44 (talk) 22:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)Yogi44

Size

The lead says "..while others in turn define them as smaller than 5 mm recognizing the common use of 333 μm mesh neuston nets for field sampling." I am not a plankton person, but I fail to see the connection which is being made here between 5mm and 333 µm. Would someone care to explain? Plantsurfer (talk) 12:50, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Even smaller, it is now part of beer. http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/verbraucher/Mikroplastik-in-Mineralwasser-und-Bier,mikroplastik134.html TGCP (talk) 06:19, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

- The sentence is not flowing well but MP si considered between 5 mm and .333 mm for convenience. That's mostly because it's almost impossible to visually sort smaller material (talk) , 7:37 6 February 2015 (UTC)  Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.198.250.166 (talk)

The referenced 2009 NOAA technical memo says 5mm in size not 5mm in diameter. Diameter is misleading.--Rjshook (talk) 13:14, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Should you put "filters in washers" as a solution for the clothing part at least?

I think it isn't there. I'd also like to know if you could currently buy them, buy I suppose that isn't this place's purpose 186.136.234.123 (talk) 21:29, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Microfibers

Sources

The car and truck tyres section does not inform about how microplastics are being generated from them. Instead all it talks about is how Denmark emits a certain amount of microplastics per year. This subsection should inform the reader about how microplastics are being generated via car and truck tyres and the example of Denmark should be removed, for it is not relevant to the subsection and is distracting. Abj016 (talk) 00:35, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Synthetic Organic Chemicals that have been Detected in the Ocean

This chart is unclear on what it is pertaining to. Are these health effects relating to all organisms, humans alone or organisms residing in the ocean? This chart also should contain a section that answers the question of how much? Meaning, how much of this chemical does the organism need to be exposed to, to begin to have these major health effects. If not stated, then the information becomes misleading and biased towards the "harm" of said chemical. Abj016 (talk) 00:42, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Action for creating awareness

This section is way too small and needs up to date information added. Instead of focusing on an art piece to raise awareness, the inclusion of nonprofits and government funded research that are ongoing (this year) should be focused on. It can also include seminars that are happening around beach areas about microplastics to raise awareness. Abj016 (talk) 00:52, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Sanitation & Readability

Thank you, one and all, for working on the Microplastics article. The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance has an ongoing project for upgrading pages related to Sustainable Development Goal 6 -- clean water and sanitation. Microplastics is on our list because sanitation includes solid waste management. Thank You for being part of this important work: education can go a long way toward protecting our planet.

We write to ask editors to pay special attention to "readability." The article scores 33 out of 100, and the lead scores 32 out of 100. Our goal is to reach 60, if at all possible. Here's the link where you can check readability for any wikipedia article: https://www.readability.nl/ Good luck with this important project.PlanetCare (talk) 01:52, 18 November 2017 (UTC)PlanetCare (talk) 20:21, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

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Wastewater treatment plants = Sewage treatment plants in this article

The article has separate sections for "Wastewater treatment plants" and "Sewage treatment plants." All the references currently cited refer to the same kind of plants, i.e. municipal sewage treatment plants. I plan to merge these two sections. (While the term "wastewater treatment plant" can be a broader term, perhaps referring to treatment of municipal sewage, or industrial waste, or agricultural waste, that is not the case in this article.) Moreau1 (talk) 02:30, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Done. Moreau1 (talk) 04:41, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Risk assessment

The following recent publications on the risk assessment of microplastics in water might be considered in the article:

  • Gert Everaert, Lisbeth Van Cauwenberghe, Maarten De Rijcke, Albert A. Koelmans, Jan Mees, Michiel Vandegehuchte, Colin R. Janssen (2018). "Risk assessment of microplastics in the ocean: Modelling approach and first conclusions". Environmental Pollution. 242: 1930–1938. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2018.07.069.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Véronique Adam, Tong Yang, Bernd Nowack. "Towards an Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment of Microplastics: Comparison of Available Hazard and Exposure Data in Freshwaters". Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. doi:10.1002/etc.4323.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

--Leyo 09:12, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

808 trillion beads

As the article is semi-protected, I can't edit this directly - perhaps someone else would like to.

Per the source, "808 trillion beads" is not the amount a single household discharges each day; it was the estimated daily discharge of microbeads across the entire USA in 2015. 193.116.87.247 (talk) 23:34, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

atmospheric transport and deposition of microplastic in a remote mountain catchment

Hi, Just a heads up about some new research to add to the wiki. Steve Allen and Dr. Deonie Allen led a team in france to illustrate the atmospheric transport of microplastics. It has recieved world wide attention. Here is a link to the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0335-5.epdf?author_access_token=ZDXR29aViFmhd52eu7Q41tRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Ow-nB8hh1BAgbijE7xDnKzMKvAV_9SBe87Yq-fG8cjudkM834KTPVBNULBMXXIv56HhqvskUObWg55fIAgGEXUVx-NTSvHFLiev3vW2OcKWA%3D%3D Cheers (Thermalsailors (talk) 12:43, 18 April 2019 (UTC))

Microfibres are not automatically primary microplastics?

Hello, dear Wikipedia editors,

I think that this statement in "Microplastics" section of Wikipedia is not correct: "Primary microplastics are any plastic fragments or particles that are already 5.0 mm in size or less before entering the environment. These include microfibers from clothing.."

Microfibres in clothing or in cleaning textiles are either polymer staple fibres (typical length is >> 40 mm) or even endless "spunbond" /filament fibres. As the microplastics definition says "smaller than 5 mm in length", microfibers are not primary microplastics, even though their diameter is 10 µm or less. Basically, they are long, thin plastic rods.

However, upon laundering, microfiber may result in formation of degradation fragments that are smaller in length than 5mm. But that debris is then called secondary microplastics per definition. Moreover, there is no difference compared to ANY synthetic polymer fibre (even fragments from very coarse synthetic fibres like in padding) generating secondary microplastic debris during washing or other use.

I think that there may be a basic misunderstanding or misinterpretation as the words "microplastics" and "microfibers made from plastics" seem to be so similar.

Or am I wrong? I can find similar statements also in the "microfiber" section of Wikipedia. I hope that I am commenting in the right way here as this is my first Wikipedia comment...

Best regards, I am interested to hear your opinion - and also thanks for your work, Jochen (Weinheim / Germany)  Preceding unsigned comment added by JochenWG (talkcontribs) 15:08, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi Jochen, I am not a Wikipedia editor but wanted to help clarify on the topic if I can. Primary microplastics are plastics that are manufactured as microplastics (think beads in facewash, nurdles, etc). Microfibers are considered secondary microplastics because they result from the degradation of a larger product. So yes, you are right that the initial statement is not correct. Thanks for your thorough investigation. Anna.bolm (talk) 18:34, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Edit request, 2.4 Clothing

Please change "Anthropomorphic" to "Anthropogenic".

 Already done --Trialpears (talk) 21:00, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 July 2019

Microplastics as vectors for toxic chemicals in the environment

Requested move 20 November 2019

Uncited claims

Fall 2020 WikiEd Working Bibliography

Plastic pellet redirect?

Cleaned up human microplastics section

Alternative to "matrices"?

Removed "further reading" list

Plans to consolidate the info on "microplastics in oceans" in just one article

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