PMID- 32479273
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200710
LR  - 20200710
IS  - 1879-3363 (Electronic)
IS  - 0025-326X (Linking)
VI  - 152
DP  - 2020 Mar
TI  - Marine plastic debris in Central Chile: Characterization and abundance of 
      macroplastics and burden of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
PG  - 110881
LID - S0025-326X(19)31037-9 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110881 [doi]
AB  - In this study, we characterized plastic debris (PD) found on beaches from 
      Concepcion Bay in central Chile during spring 2017 and summer 2018. The 
      identification of polymers was carried out using FT-IR. Persistent organic 
      pollutants (POPs) were extracted with hexane using an ultrasonic bath and further 
      quantified through GC-MS. The highest abundance of PD was obtained during the 
      summer (4.1 +/- 3.7 items/m(2)), with the most common size range between 2.5 and 
      10 cm (42%) and the most frequent shape were plastic fragments (44%). FT-IR 
      analysis showed that polypropylene was the most recurrent plastic polymer found. 
      The  summation operator10PBDEs ranged from 2.1 to 1300 ng/g in spring 2017 and 392 to 3177 ng/g in 
      summer 2018.  summation operator7PCBs ranged from 0.9 to 93 ng/g during the spring 2017 and 0.3 to 
      4.5 ng/g for summer 2018. This study is the first with information on POPs 
      occurrence in the plastic debris of central Chile.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Gomez, Victoria
AU  - Gomez V
AD  - Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, 
      Via P.A. Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy.
FAU - Pozo, Karla
AU  - Pozo K
AD  - Facultad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Universidad San Sebastian, Lientur 1457, 
      Concepcion, Chile; RECETOX (Research Center for Toxic Compounds in the 
      Environment), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Electronic address: 
      pozo@recetox.muni.cz.
FAU - Nunez, Dariela
AU  - Nunez D
AD  - Centro de investigacion de polimeros avanzados (CIPA), Universidad del Bio-Bio, 
      Concepcion, Chile.
FAU - Pribylova, Petra
AU  - Pribylova P
AD  - RECETOX (Research Center for Toxic Compounds in the Environment), Masaryk 
      University, Brno, Czech Republic.
FAU - Audy, Ondrej
AU  - Audy O
AD  - RECETOX (Research Center for Toxic Compounds in the Environment), Masaryk 
      University, Brno, Czech Republic.
FAU - Baini, Matteo
AU  - Baini M
AD  - Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, 
      Via P.A. Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy.
FAU - Fossi, Maria Cristina
AU  - Fossi MC
AD  - Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, 
      Via P.A. Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy.
FAU - Klanova, Jana
AU  - Klanova J
AD  - RECETOX (Research Center for Toxic Compounds in the Environment), Masaryk 
      University, Brno, Czech Republic.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200217
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Pollut Bull
JT  - Marine pollution bulletin
JID - 0260231
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Waste Products)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Bathing Beaches
MH  - Chile
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - *Environmental Pollutants
MH  - Plastics
MH  - Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared
MH  - Waste Products/analysis
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Beach
OT  - Central Chile
OT  - Macroplastics
OT  - POPs
OT  - Plastic debris
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2020/06/02 06:00
MHDA- 2020/07/11 06:00
CRDT- 2020/06/02 06:00
PHST- 2019/10/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/12/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/12/31 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/06/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/06/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/07/11 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0025-326X(19)31037-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110881 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Pollut Bull. 2020 Mar;152:110881. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110881. Epub 
      2020 Feb 17.