Plastics in the Aquatic Environment - Part I: Current Status and Challenges

This book offers a comprehensive review of how plastic pollution is affecting fresh and marine waters, and what the current challenges in plastic waste assessment and management in the aquatic environment are. Plastic waste comprises particles with heterogeneous physicochemical properties such as large size—range, different shapes and polymer types with various additives determining their environmental fate and risk. This complexity raises several open research questions which are explored ...