Microplastic pollutants [electronic resource] / Christopher Blair Crawford and Brian Quinn.

1. The emergence of plastics
2. The contemporary history of plastics
3. Plastic production, waste and legislation
4. Physiochemical properties and degradation
5. Microplastics, standardisation and spatial distribution
6. The interactions of microplastics and chemical pollutants
7. The biological impacts and effects of contaminated microplastics
8. Microplastic collection techniques
9. Microplastic separation techniques
10. Microplastic identification techniques.