Organic micropollutants in marine plastics and their transfer to marine organisms

• Project/Area Number: 23310046
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Risk sciences of radiation/Chemicals
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• Principal Investigator: TAKADA Hideshige 東京農工大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 教授 (70187970)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): WATANUKI Yutaka 北海道大学, 水産研究所, 教授 (40192819)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥19,630,000 (Direct Cost: ¥15,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,530,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
• Keywords: 海洋プラスチック汚染 / 海洋汚染 / マイクロプラスチック / POPs / 添加剤 / 海鳥 / 溶出実験 / インターナショナルペレットウォッチ / 残留性有機汚染物質(POPs) / プラスチック / Pellet Watch / 生物濃縮 / ストマックオイル / プラスチック汚染 / 化学物質 / 臭素化ジフェニルエーテル / ハシボソミズナギドリ / 海洋プラスチック / 海洋漂流物 / PBDEs / PCBs / pellet watch / microplastic / プラスチック破片 / 海洋漂着物 / ノニルフェノール / レジンペレット / International Pellet Watch

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Plastic debris in marine environments contain various organic contaminants with concentration range from 1 ng/g to 10000 ng/g. They are derived from additives compounded into the original plastic products or sorption from surrounding seawater. Our investigation on oceanic birds demonstrated that some of the organic contaminants in the ingested plastics are transferred to the tissue of seabirds which ingest the plastics. Facilitated leaching of additive-derived chemicals from plastic by stomach oil was proved to be a key process on the transfer of the chemicals from ingested plastics to the internal system of the organisms. Magnitude of the plastic-mediated transfer of chemicals to marine biota should be further studied.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 草案と開発 海岸漂着レジンペレットを使った地球規模モニタリング (2015)
  • Author(s): 高田秀重
  • Journal Title: ぶんせき Volume: 2015-1 Pages: 29-34
• [Journal Article] International Pellet Watch (IPW)：海岸漂着プラスチックを用いた地球規模でのPOPsモニタリング (2014)
  • Author(s): 高田秀重
  • Journal Title: 地球環境 Volume: 19 Pages: 135-145
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Monitoring of organic micropollutants in Ghana by combination of pellet watch with sediment analysis: E-waste as a source of PCBs (2014)
  • Author(s): Junki Hosoda, John Ofosu-Anim, Edward Benjamin Sabi, Lailah Gifty Akita, Siaw Onwona-Agyeman, Rei Yamashita, Hideshige Takada
  • Journal Title: Marine Pollution Bulletin Volume: 86 Issue: 1-2 Pages: 575-581
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.06.008
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 海洋プラスチック汚染の概況と今後の課題 (2014)
  • Author(s): 高田秀重、山下麗
  • Journal Title: 海洋と生物 Volume: 36 Pages: 555-564
• [Journal Article] プラスチックが媒介する有害化学物質の海洋生物への曝露と移行 (2014)
  • Author(s): 高田秀重、田中厚資、青木千佳子、市川馨子、山下麗
  • Journal Title: 海洋と生物 Volume: 36 Pages: 579-587
• [Journal Article] さまざまな栄養段階の海洋生物へのプラスチック摂食の影響 (2014)
  • Author(s): 山下麗、高田秀重
  • Journal Title: 海洋と生物 Volume: 36 Pages: 606-611
• [Journal Article] Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), and Plastics : Examples of the Status, Trend, and Cycling of Organic Chemicals of Environmental Concern in the Ocean (2014)
  • Author(s): JOHN W. FARRINGTON, HIDESHIGE TAKADA
  • Journal Title: Oceanography Volume: 27 Issue: 1 Pages: 196-213
  • DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2014.23
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Desorption Kinetics of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants from Marine Plastic Pellets. (2013)
  • Author(s): Satoshi Endo; Masaki Yuyama; Hideshige Takada
  • Journal Title: Marine Pollution Bulletin Volume: 74 Issue: 1 Pages: 125-131
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.07.018
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Policy: Classify plastic waste as hazardous. (2013)
  • Author(s): Rochman, Chelsea; Browne, Mark; Halpern, Benjamin; Hentschel, Brian.; Hoh, Eunha; Karapanagioti, Hrissi K.; Rios-Mendoza, Lorena M.; Takada, Hideshige; et al.
  • Journal Title: Nature Volume: 494 Issue: 7436 Pages: 169-171
  • DOI: 10.1038/494169a
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Accumulation of plastic-derived chemicals in tissues of seabirds ingesting marine plastics Marine (2013)
  • Author(s): Tanaka K, Takada H, Yamashita R, Mizukawa K, Fukuwaka M, Watanuki Y
  • Journal Title: Pollution Bulletin Volume: 69 Issue: 1-2 Pages: 219-222
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.12.010
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Biomagnification and debromination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in a coastal ecosystem in Tokyo Bay. (2013)
  • Author(s): Kaoruko Mizukawa, Toshiko Yamada, Hiroaki Matsuo, Ichiro Takeuchi, Kotaro Tsuchiya, Hideshige Takada
  • Journal Title: Science of the Total Environment Volume: 449 Pages: 401-409
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.092
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Monitoring of a wide range of organic micropollutants on the Portuguese coast using plastic resin pellets. (2013)
  • Author(s): Kaoruko Mizukawa, Hideshige Takada, Maki Ito, Yeo Bee Geok, Junki Hosoda, Rei Yamashita, Mahua Saha,
  • Journal Title: Marine Pollution Bulletin Volume: 70 Issue: 1-2 Pages: 296-302
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.02.008
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Distribution of quinolones, sulfonamides, tetracyclines in aquatic environment and antibiotic resistance in Indochina (2012)
  • Author(s): Suzuki, S. and Hoa, P.T.P.
  • Journal Title: Frontiers in Microbiology Volume: 3 Pages: 67-67
  • DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00067
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Measurement of persistent organic pollutants (POPs)in plastic resin pellets from remote islands : toward establishment of background concentrations for International Pellet Watch (2011)
  • Author(s): Marvin Heskett, Hideshige Takada, Rei Yamashita, Masaki Yuyama, Maki Itoh, Yeo Bee Geok, Yuko Ogata, Charita Kwan, Angelika Heckhausen, Heidi Taylor, Taj Powell, Carey Morishige, Doug Young, Hugh Patterson, Bryson Robertson, Elizabeth Bailey, Jorge Mermoz
  • Journal Title: Marine Pollution Bulletin Volume: 64 Issue: 8 Pages: 445-448
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.06.004
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Physical and chemical effects of ingested plastics on short-tailed shearwaters, Puffinus tenuirostris, in the North Pacific Ocean (2011)
  • Author(s): Yamashita R,Takada H,Fukuwaka M,Watanuki Y
  • Journal Title: Mar Pol Bull Volume: 62 Issue: 12 Pages: 28452849-28452849
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.10.008
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Diffuse Pollution by Persistent Organic Pollutants as Measured in Plastic Pellets Sampled from Various Beaches in Greece (2011)
  • Author(s): Karapanagioti, H.K.; Endo, S.; Ogata, Y.; Takada, H.
  • Journal Title: Marine Pollution Bulletin Volume: 62 Issue: 2 Pages: 312-317
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.10.009
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Hazardous chemicals in plastics in marine environments and their potential effects on marine organisms (2014)
  • Author(s): 高田秀重
  • Organizer: PICES-2014
  • Place of Presentation: Yeosu (Korea)
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-18 – 2014-10-24
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Chemicals in plastics in marine environments and their transfer to organisms (2014)
  • Author(s): 高田秀重
  • Organizer: International Symposium on Source, Fate and Effects of Microplastics in the Marine Environment
  • Place of Presentation: Busan (Korea)
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-07
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Detection of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in tissue of seabird ingesting plastics (2012)
  • Author(s): Hideshige Takada, Atsushi Tanaka, Rei Yamashita, Yutaka Watanuki
  • Organizer: Soceity of Envirronmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Berlin
  • Place of Presentation: Convention Center, Berlin, Germany
• [Presentation] International Pellet Watch Background levels, hot spots, legacy pollution, and temporal trends (2012)
  • Author(s): Hideshige TAKADA, Masaki YUYAMA, Rei YAMASHITA, MAKI ITOH, Yeo Bee GEOK, Yuko OGATA, Satoru IWASA
  • Organizer: Soceity of Envirronmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Berlin
  • Place of Presentation: Convention Center, Berlin, Germany
• [Presentation] Chemicals in marine plastics : carrier of toxic chemicals to marine organisms (2012)
  • Author(s): Hideshige Takada
  • Organizer: Marine Plastic Pollution : Toxic Chemicals and Biological Effects.
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo University of Agric. & Technol., Tokyo, Japan
• [Presentation] Detection of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in tissue of seabirds and the ingested plastics (2012)
  • Author(s): Hideshige Takada, Atsushi Tanaka, Rei Yamashita, Yutaka Watanuki
  • Organizer: Soceity of Envirronmental Chemistry and Toxicology, North America
  • Place of Presentation: Convention Center, Long Beach, CA, USA
• [Presentation] International Pellet Watch : Global distribution of POPs, their temporal trends, and ecotoxicological significance (2012)
  • Author(s): Hideshige TAKADA, Masaki Yuyama, Rei Yamashita, Maki Ito, Yeo Bee Geok
  • Organizer: Soceity of Envirronmental Chemistry and Toxicology, North America
  • Place of Presentation: Convention Center, Long Beach, CA, USA
• [Presentation] International Pellet Watch:南アフリカ沿岸域POPs汚染の経年変化 (2011)
  • Author(s): 湯山将樹, Peter G.Ryan, 高田秀重, 山下麗, 伊東万木, Yeo Bee Geok
  • Organizer: 第20回環境化学討論会
  • Place of Presentation: 熊本
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-17
• [Presentation] International Pellet Watch - transfer of hazardous chemicals from marine plastics to ecosystem
  • Author(s): 高田秀重
  • Organizer: 2013 NOWPAP International Coastal Cleanup and Workshop on Marine Litter Management in Okinawa, Japan
  • Place of Presentation: 沖縄科学技術大学大学院（沖縄県国頭郡恩納村）
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Issue of plastics in the coastal and marine environment and possible solutions
  • Author(s): 高田秀重
  • Organizer: Fifth Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific
  • Place of Presentation: Shangri-La Hotel（インドネシア・スラバヤ）
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Overview and scientific evidence on plastics in coastal & marine environment
  • Author(s): 高田秀重
  • Organizer: 3R International Scientific Conference (3RINCS) 2014
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学時計台ホール（京都府・京都市）
  • Invited
• [Book] Chapter 9 in SECTION 3: PLASTIC ECOLOGIES in Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic (2013)
  • Author(s): Hideshige Takada
  • Total Pages: 244
  • Publisher: Routledge
• [Remarks] International Pellet Watch
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• [Remarks] International Pellet watch
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• [Remarks] International Pellet Watch
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