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T1 Plastitar: A new threat for coastal environments
A1 Díaz Peña, Francisco Javier
A1 Domínguez Hernández, Cristopher
A1 Villanova Solano, Cristina
A1 Sevillano González, Marta
A1 Hernández Sánchez, Cintia
A1 González Sálamo, Javier
A1 Ortega Zamora, Cecilia
A1 Hernández Borges, Javier
K1 Microplastics
K1 Oil
K1 Tar
K1 Plastitar
K1 Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
AB Oil residues have been frequently found on the coasts all over the world as a result of different accidental releases. Their partial evaporation and solidification onto the coastal rocks can produce the formation of a new solid structure forming an agglomerate with other materials, mainly microplastics (though wood, glass, sand and rocks were also found), yielding to a new plastic formation, name herein for the first time as “plastitar”. These new formations have been found in several of the islands of the Canary Islands archipelago (Spain). Their study has shown that these newformations can be permanently attached to the rock, occupying even a 56%of the sampled areawith an heterogeneous distribution. Itwas also observed that the studied plastitarwas composed mainly of tar and polyethylene (90.6% of the studied particles) and polypropylene (9.4%of the studied particles) microplastics, primarily fragments (82.5%), pellets(15.7%) and lines (1.8%). The evermore frequent presence of plastics and, in particular, microplastics in coastal environments can lead to the common occurrence of these new plastic formations (probably present in other parts of the world), which long-term effects on the coasts should be further investigated.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35948
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35948
LA en
NO https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156261
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 16-may-2024