Fig. 3.

Images illustrating some of the specific sources of paint particles to the marine environment. (a) Painted wooden boards that had been dumped on a beach, (b) paint peeling off a road bridge, (c) paint deteriorating from the hull and rails of an abandoned ship, (d) crumbling yellow road paint, (e) a painted, beached fishing float, (f) the hull of a boat having recently been power-sanded, and (g) a fragment of painted plastic retrieved from a beach near a coastal landfill site. (Images courtesy of Andrew Turner, Madeleine Lewis and Christina Muller-Karanassos).