Scientific Evidence Supports a Ban on Microbeads

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVViewpointNEXTADDITION / CORRECTIONThis article has been corrected. View the notice.Scientific Evidence Supports a Ban on MicrobeadsChelsea M. Rochman*†‡, Sara M. Kross†§, Jonathan B. Armstrong†∥, Michael T. Bogan†⊥, Emily S. Darling†#, Stephanie J. Green†¶, Ashley R. Smyth†▲, and Diogo Veríssimo†▼View Author Information† David H. Smith Conservation Research Program, Society for Conservation Biology, Washington, DC 20001, United States‡ School of Veterinary Medicine, Aquatic Health Program, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States§ Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616-8627, United States∥ USGS Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, United States⊥ Department of Environmental Science, Management and Policy, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-3114, United States# Marine Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York 10460-1099, United States¶ Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, United States▲ Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062, United States▼ Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, 33 Gilmer Street SE, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, United States*E-mail: email protected. Phone: +1 (647) 770-8135.Cite this: Environ. Sci. Technol. 2015, 49, 18, 10759–10761Publication Date (Web):September 3, 2015Publication History Published online3 September 2015Published inissue 15 September 2015https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5b03909https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b03909newsACS PublicationsCopyright © 2015 American Chemical Society. This publication is available under these Terms of Use. Request reuse permissions This publication is free to access through this site. Learn MoreArticle Views60718Altmetric-Citations299LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail PDF (2 MB) Get e-AlertscloseSUBJECTS:Biopolymers,Contamination,Organic polymers,Plastics,Sludges Get e-Alerts