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Occurrence of microplastic resin pellets from Chennai and Tinnakkara Island: Towards the establishment of background level for plastic pollution

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Title Occurrence of microplastic resin pellets from Chennai and Tinnakkara Island: Towards the establishment of background level for plastic pollution
 
Creator Mugilarasan, M.
Venkatachalapathy, R.
Sharmila, N.
Gurumoorthi, K.
 
Subject Resin pellets
Pollution
Occurrence
Chennai
Tinnakkara Island
 
Description 1210-1212
Plastic resin pellets collected from the metropolitan city Chennai (east coast of India) and remote Island Tinnakkara (west coast of India) were characterised by colour and their surface oxidation features. The most abundant pellets were yellow in Chennai and white pellets were plentiful in Tinnakkara Island. Surface oxidation features of pellet samples in the Chennai coast were cracks, material loss, erosion, adhesion and colour change. This is congruent with a long residence time in the marine environment associated with more pollutants. In Tinnakkara Island, white pellets were most abundant with less oxidation, which confirmed that short residence time in the marine environment and likely nearby sources.
 
Date 2017-05-29T08:48:14Z
2017-05-29T08:48:14Z
2017-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/41992
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.46(06) [June 2017]