Synthetic plastics present in everyday materials constitute the main anthropogenic debris
entering the Earth's oceans. The oceans provide important and valuable resources such as …

Plastic contamination of aquatic environments from waste discharges, industrial raw
materials, manufactured pellets or fragments of fishing nets, is becoming a future research …

Plastic pollution is a distinctive element of the globalized world. In fact, since the 1970s the
expansion and use of plastics, particularly in the consumer and commercial sectors, has …

Colonization of plastic marine debris by microorganisms has been firstly reported in the
1970s, where authors mention diatoms and other microbes on the debris (Carpenter et al …

The marine plastic pollution has drastic effect on marine species. The importance in
environmental issues increases the demand to develop a significant technology which does …

With the rising plastic pollution in the oceans, research on the plastisphere—the
microorganisms interacting with marine plastic debris—has emerged. Microbial communities …

Plastics are very useful materials and present numerous advantages in the daily life of
individuals and society. However, plastics are accumulating in the environment and due to …

Synthetic polymers, commonly named plastics, are among the most widespread
anthropogenic pollutants of marine, limnic and terrestrial ecosystems. Disruptive effects of …

Over the last decades, it has become clear that plastic pollution presents a global societal
and environmental challenge given its increasing presence in the oceans. A growing …

ABSTRACT A wide range of plastic debris dumped into the ocean has recently gained
concern of the marine ecosystems. Discarded and abandoned fishing nets, also known as …