FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Organic additive release from plastic to seawater is lower under deep-sea conditions BT AF Fauvelle, Vincent Garel, Marc Tamburini, Christian Nerini, David Castro-Jiménez, Javier Schmidt, Natascha Paluselli, Andrea Fahs, Armand Papillon, Laure Booth, Andy M. Sempéré, Richard AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:2;6:1;7:3;8:4;9:1;10:5;11:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-RBE-BE-LBCO;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:; C1 Aix-Marseille University, Toulon University, CNRS, IRD, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), Marseille, France Laboratory of Biogeochemistry of Organic Contaminants (LBCO), IFREMER, Nantes, France Department of Basic Science, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea Laboratory MAPIEM (EA 4323), University of Toulon, Toulon, France SINTEF Ocean AS, Environment and New Resources, Trondheim, Norway C2 UNIV AIX MARSEILLE, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV NATL INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA UNIV TOULON, FRANCE SINTEF OCEAN, NORWAY SI NANTES SE PDG-RBE-BE-LBCO IN WOS Ifremer UPR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 17.694 TC 45 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00706/81771/86473.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00706/81771/86474.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00706/81771/86475.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00706/81771/86476.pdf LA English DT Article AB Plastic garbage patches at the ocean surface are symptomatic of a wider pollution affecting the whole marine environment. Sinking of plastic debris increasingly appears to be an important process in the global fate of plastic in the ocean. However, there is insufficient knowledge about the processes affecting plastic distributions and degradation and how this influences the release of additives under varying environmental conditions, especially in deep-sea environments. Here we show that in abiotic conditions increasing hydrostatic pressure inhibits the leaching of the heaviest organic additives such as tris(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate and diisononyl phthalate from polyethylene and polyvinylchloride materials, whereas deep-sea and surface marine prokaryotes promote the release of all targeted additives (phthalates, bisphenols, organophosphate esters). This study provides empirical evidences for more efficient additive release at the ocean surface than in deep seawater, where the major plastic burden is supposed to transit through before reaching the sediment compartment. PY 2021 PD JUN SO Nature Communications SN 2041-1723 PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL 12 IS 1 UT 000677641700018 DI 10.1038/s41467-021-24738-w ID 81771 ER EF