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Divergent Forms of Pyroplastic: Lessons Learned from the M/V X-Press Pearl Ship Fire

[Image: see text] In late May 2021, the M/V X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire while anchored 18 km off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka and spilled upward of 70 billion pieces of plastic or “nurdles” (∼1680 tons), littering the country’s coastline. Exposure to combustion, heat, chemicals, and...

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Autores principales: James, Bryan D., de Vos, Asha, Aluwihare, Lihini I., Youngs, Sarah, Ward, Collin P., Nelson, Robert K., Michel, Anna P. M., Hahn, Mark E., Reddy, Christopher M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10125272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37101454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.2c00020