Microplastic Contamination in Aquatic Environments. An Emerging Matter of Environmental Urgency

Table of Contents

BACKGROUND 1. Formation and Evolution of Microplastics 2. Global Distribution of Microplastics: Abundance and Composition

SOURCES AND PATHWAYS 3. Contribution of Anthropogenic Activities to Microplastic Pollution 4. Sources and Pathways of Microplastics to Freshwater Environment 5. Sources and Pathways of Microplastics to Marine Environment

SAMPLING AND DETECTION 6. Detection, Qualification and Quantitation of Microplastics in Environmental Samples

OCCURRENCE OF PLASTIC IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS 7. Microplastics Pollution in the Marine Environment 8. Contamination of Microplastics in the Freshwater Systems 9. Microplastic Contamination in Estuarine System 10. Nanoplastic Contamination in the Aquatic Environment

FATE AND EFFECTS 11. Impacts of Microplastics on Aquatic Organisms 12. Fate and Effect of Microplastics in the Marine Environment 13. Fate and Effect of Microplastics in the Freshwater Systems 14. Effects of Microplastic Discharge from WWTPs on the Receiving Waters 15. Sorption of Persistent Organic Chemicals (POPs) to Microplastics 16. Fate and Effects of Plastic Additives in the Environment 17. Microplastics in the Terrestrial Environments

HUMAN HEALTH AND REGULATIONS 18. Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in the Ecological Food Chain 19. Microplastic Pollution and Human Health 20. Regulations and Solutions for Microplastic Pollution Control

Authors

Eddy Y Zeng Professor and Dean School of Environment Jinan University China. Dr. Eddy Y. Zeng is a Full Professor and Dean of the School of Environment, Jinan University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 1992. He was employed by the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project first as Senior Scientist and then Principal Scientist for a number of years, before returning to China in 2004. His research interests include 1) intercompartmental processes and fluxes of persistent organic pollutants (POPs); 2) human exposure to persistent toxic substances and risk assessment; 3) occurrence and toxic effects of microplastics/plastics in terrestrial and aquatic environments; and 4) the utility of using passive sampler to measure freely dissolved concentrations of POPs in the aquatic environment. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Pollution and Associate Editor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. He also served as guest editors on numerous journals.