The M/V X-Press Pearl Nurdle Spill: Contamination of Burnt Plastic and Unburnt Nurdles along Sri Lanka’s Beaches

[Image: see text] In May 2021, the M/V X-Press Pearl cargo ship caught fire 18 km off the west coast of Sri Lanka and spilled ∼1680 tons of spherical pieces of plastic or “nurdles” (∼5 mm; white in color). Nurdles are the preproduction plastic used to manufacture a wide range of end products. Exposu...

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Autores principales: de Vos, Asha, Aluwihare, Lihini, Youngs, Sarah, DiBenedetto, Michelle H., Ward, Collin P., Michel, Anna P. M., Colson, Beckett C., Mazzotta, Michael G., Walsh, Anna N., Nelson, Robert K., Reddy, Christopher M., James, Bryan D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10114858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37101587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.1c00031

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10114858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37101587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.1c00031

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