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Maria Perraki, Vasilios Skliros, Petros Mecaj, Eleni Vasileiou, Christos Salmas, Ioannis Papanikolaou and Georgios Stamatis
Sixteen surface (5) and groundwater (11) samples were collected from the south-eastern part of Attica, Greece, and analysed for physico-chemical parameters and microplastics (MPs) by optical microscopy and Raman microspectroscopy (RS). A total of 3399 pa...
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Yang Li, Yinghui Meng, Liwen Qin, Minghui Shen, Tongtong Qin, Xudong Chen, Beibei Chai, Yue Liu, Yanyan Dou and Xuejun Duan
As an emerging contaminant, the presence of microplastics is widespread in the environment. However, current research regarding the removal of microplastics by drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) remains insufficient. This study aims to investigate m...
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Enrique J. Flores-Munguía, José Luis Rosas-Acevedo, Aurelio Ramírez-Hernández, Alejandro Aparicio-Saguilan, Rosa M. Brito-Carmona and Juan Violante-González
Contamination of aquatic ecosystems by microplastics (MPs) is mainly due to the release of high levels of MP particles from treated effluents by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Due to the lack of policies and regulations establishing criteria for th...
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Che Abd Rahim Mohamed, Aqilah Nur Shahruddin, Siriporn Pradit, Pei Sun Loh, Thongchai Nitiratsuwan, Thawanrat Kobkeatthawin, Prakrit Noppradit, Thi Phuong Quynh Le, Chantha Oeurng, Ty Sok, Choon Weng Lee, Chui Wei Bong, Xixi Lu, Gusti Z. Anshari, Selvaraj Kandasamy and Jianjun Wang
Microplastics are widespread in coastal and marine environments, and sediments serve as a sink for microplastics. In this study, four sediment cores were collected from the Kuala Gula Mangrove area. The abundance of microplastics in mangrove sediments ra...
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Suthep Jualaong, Mitila Pransilpa, Siriporn Pradit and Prawit Towatana
In the oceans and coasts, plastic waste poses a global threat to biodiversity. This study examined the types and distribution of microplastics in beach sediment along the coast of the eastern Gulf of Thailand in March 2018 (northeast monsoon = dry season...
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Peiqin Liu, Hongping Liao, Yongyan Deng, Wenqi Zhang, Zhixi Zhou, Di Sun, Zhixin Ke, Aiguo Zhou and Huijuan Tang
Microplastics (MPs) have been given considerable attention due to their risk to aquatic organisms in marine environments. In this study, MPs? abundance and their potential correlation with environmental factors were investigated from 26 sites in Daya Bay...
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Jingxi Li, Fenglei Gao, Di Zhang, Wei Cao and Chang Zhao
As a new type of pollutant, microplastics widely exist in the marine environment and have attracted a lot of attention from the international community. In order to study the distribution of microplastics and the influence of ocean current, microplastic ...
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Fenghua Jiang, Menghui Wang, Jinfeng Ding, Wei Cao and Chengjun Sun
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are considered as one of the important sources of microplastics (MPs) in the marine environment. In this paper, the characteristics of MPs in the effluent discharged from five WWTPs in Qingdao, China, in winter and sum...
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Svetlana Pakhomova, Igor Zhdanov and Bert van Bavel
Plastic pollution in the marine environment has turned into an important research topic in recent decades. Until recently, studies were often based on visual assessment only, which is not enough to draw any conclusion about the chemical nature of found p...
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Giuseppe Andrea De Lucia, Alvise Vianello, Andrea Camedda, Danilo Vani, Paolo Tomassetti, Stefania Coppa, Luca Palazzo, Marina Amici, Giulia Romanelli, Giorgio Zampetti, Anna Maria Cicero, Serena Carpentieri, Stefania Di Vito and Marco Matiddi
The abundance and distribution of microplastics (MP) were evaluated in six ?clean? sites (Italian minor islands) and in two ?polluted? areas (near the mouth of two major Italian rivers). Samples of MP, plankton and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) we...
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Yi-Ming Zhang, Peter Brimblecombe and Chon-Lin Lee
Microplastics are a major environmental issue. In marine systems, these break down into small fragments that may lodge within organisms, but they behave as vectors for chemicals when pollutants such as metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pes...
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René A. Rojas-Luna, Luisa Oquendo-Ruiz, Carlos A. García-Alzate, Victoria A. Arana, Roberto García-Alzate and Jorge Trilleras
There are few studies on microplastic (MP) contamination in Colombia, and little is known about its impacts on continental aquatic ecosystems. This study evaluated, for the first time, the identification, abundance, and distribution of MP particles in th...
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