Plasticrust
Plasticrusts are a new type of plastic pollution in the form of plastic debris covering rocks in intertidal shorelines which vary in thickness and in color and are composed of polyethylene based on Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis. They were first discovered and named by (Gestoso et al., 2019), on the South coast of the volcanic island of Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean in 2016 and have additionally been found on Giglio Island, Italy by (Ehlers, Ellrich, 2020). They are considered a sub-type of plastiglomerate and could possibly have negative effects on surrounding fauna by entering the food web through consumption by benthic invertebrates.
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plastic pollution
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Q463960
plastic debris
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Q143429
polyethylene
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Q901559
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
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Q26253
Madeira
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Atlantic Ocean
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Q204152
Giglio Island
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Q38
Italy
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Q17266547
plastiglomerate
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Q3737872
benthic invertebrates
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Q104845126
Plasticrust
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2019
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2016-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2016
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2020-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2020
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located in or next to body of water
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