Detection of microplastics in Arctic deep-sea sediments by µFTIR spectroscopy

• Main Author: Wirzberger, Vanessa
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Breaker; Norway; Svalbard; Fram Strait
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/44307/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.50647

Plastic is one of the most widely used materials in the manufacturing of different products. The global plastic production increased between 2011 and 2015 from 280 Mio. t per year to 322 Mio. t per year. In the last years the social and scientific interest in microplastics (<5 mm) increased as it...