Contributors
Elisabeth von der Esch: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – original draft
Alexander J. Kohles: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draft
Philipp M. Anger: Role: InvestigationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Roland Hoppe: Role: ConceptualizationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Reinhard Niessner: Role: Funding acquisitionRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Martin Elsner: Role: ConceptualizationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Natalia P. Ivleva:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7685-5166
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Matthieu George: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
23
June
2020
Publication date Collection: 2020
Volume: 15
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0234766
Affiliations
[001]Institute of Hydrochemistry, Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry, Technical
University of Munich, Munich, Germany
University of Montpellier, FRANCE
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-19-33659
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234766
PMC ID: 7310837
PubMed ID: 32574195
SO-VID: f2c90d8b-df13-4d88-9d19-40ce857a71a5
Copyright © © 2020 von der Esch et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 5
December
2019
Date
accepted
: 25
May
2020
Page count
Figures: 11,
Tables: 2,
Pages: 20
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002745, Bayerische Forschungsstiftung;
Award ID: AZ-1258-16
Award Recipient
:
Elisabeth von der Esch
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung;
Award ID: 02WRS1378C
Award Recipient
:
Philipp M. Anger
Funding by the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung (
https://www.forschungsstiftung.de/) for the Project MiPaq “Microparticles in the aquatic environment and in foodstuffs”
are biodegradable polymers a conceivable solution to the “microplastic problem”?,
AZ-1258-16 is gratefully acknowledged. Funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education
and Research
https://www.bmbf.de/ for the Project MiWa – Microplastic in the water cycle, 02WRS1378C is gratefully
acknowledged. Furthermore, this work was supported by the German Research Foundation
(DFG,
https://www.dfg.de/) and the Technical University of Munich, within the funding program Open Ac-cess
Publishing. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis,
decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript
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