Identification of microplastic in effluents of waste water treatment plants using focal plane array-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging.

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Identification of microplastic in effluents of waste water treatment plants using focal plane array-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging.

Svenja Mintenig¹, Svenja Mintenig², Ivo Int-Veen¹, Martin G. J. Löder¹, Martin G. J. Löder³, Sebastian Primpke¹, Gunnar Gerdts¹ - Show less +3 more•Institutions (3)

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research¹, Utrecht University², University of Bayreuth³

01 Jan 2017-Water Research (Water Res)-Vol. 108, pp 365-372

TL;DR: It is suggested that WWTPs could be a sink but also a source of MP and thus can be considered to play an important role for environmental MP pollution.

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About: This article is published in Water Research.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 877 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Waste disposal.

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Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities.

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Alice A. Horton¹, Alexander Walton², David J. Spurgeon, Elma Lahive, Claus Svendsen - Show less +1 more•Institutions (2)

Leiden University¹, University of Exeter²

15 May 2017-Science of The Total Environment

TL;DR: This review critically evaluates the current literature on the presence, behaviour and fate of microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments and, where appropriate, draws on relevant studies from other fields including nanotechnology, agriculture and waste management.

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The plastic in microplastics: A review.

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Anthony L. Andrady¹•Institutions (1)

North Carolina State University¹

15 Jun 2017-Marine Pollution Bulletin

TL;DR: This review assesses the relevance of selected characteristics of plastics that composes the microplastics, to their role as a pollutant with potentially serious ecological impacts.

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Microplastics in freshwaters and drinking water: Critical review and assessment of data quality.

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Albert A. Koelmans¹, Nur Hazimah Mohamed Nor¹, Enya Hermsen¹, Merel Kooi¹, Svenja Mintenig² - Show less +1 more•Institutions (2)

Wageningen University and Research Centre¹, Utrecht University²

15 May 2019-Water Research

TL;DR: More high quality data is needed on the occurrence of microplastics in drinking water, to better understand potential exposure and to inform human health risk assessments, and there is a significant need to improve quality assurance ofmicroplastic sampling and analysis in water samples.

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Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review on occurrence, environmental effects, and methods for microplastics detection.

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Jingyi Li¹, Huihui Liu¹, J. Paul Chen¹•Institutions (1)

National University of Singapore¹

28 Dec 2017-Water Research

TL;DR: There is still no universal accepted quantification and qualification tools of microplastics in fresh waters, and more work is anticipated to obtain accurate information on microplastic in freshwater, which can then be used for the better assessment of the environmental risk.

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Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems

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Anderson Abel de Souza Machado¹, Anderson Abel de Souza Machado², Werner Kloas³, Werner Kloas¹, Christiane Zarfl⁴, Stefan Hempel², Matthias C. Rillig² - Show less +3 more•Institutions (4)

Leibniz Association¹, Free University of Berlin², Humboldt University of Berlin³, University of Tübingen⁴

01 Apr 2018-Global Change Biology

TL;DR: The pervasive microplastic contamination as a potential agent of global change in terrestrial systems is introduced, the physical and chemical nature of the respective observed effects are highlighted, and the broad toxicity of nanoplastics derived from plastic breakdown is discussed.

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Abstract: Microplastics (plastics < 5 mm, including nanoplastics which are < 0.1 μm) originate from the fragmentation of large plastic litter or from direct environmental emission. Their potential impacts in terrestrial ecosystems remain largely unexplored despite numerous reported effects on marine organisms. Most plastics arriving in the oceans were produced, used, and often disposed on land. Hence, it is within terrestrial systems that microplastics might first interact with biota eliciting ecologically relevant impacts. This article introduces the pervasive microplastic contamination as a potential agent of global change in terrestrial systems, highlights the physical and chemical nature of the respective observed effects, and discusses the broad toxicity of nanoplastics derived from plastic breakdown. Making relevant links to the fate of microplastics in aquatic continental systems, we here present new insights into the mechanisms of impacts on terrestrial geochemistry, the biophysical environment, and ecotoxicology. Broad changes in continental environments are possible even in particle-rich habitats such as soils. Furthermore, there is a growing body of evidence indicating that microplastics interact with terrestrial organisms that mediate essential ecosystem services and functions, such as soil dwelling invertebrates, terrestrial fungi, and plant-pollinators. Therefore, research is needed to clarify the terrestrial fate and effects of microplastics. We suggest that due to the widespread presence, environmental persistence, and various interactions with continental biota, microplastic pollution might represent an emerging global change threat to terrestrial ecosystems.

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Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

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Jenna Jambeck¹, Roland Geyer², Chris Wilcox³, Theodore R. Siegler⁴, Miriam E. Perryman¹, Anthony L. Andrady⁵, Ramani Narayan⁶, Kara Lavender Law⁷ - Show less +4 more•Institutions (7)

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...Similar to results from the marine environment, detailed information on sources for MP in limnic habitats are scarce (Jambeck et al., 2015)....
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North Carolina State University¹

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...Here, studies showed a global presence of MP in all, even remote habitats (Andrady, 2011; Browne et al., 2011; Eriksen et al., 2013; Watters et al., 2010), or revealed ingestion by several species (Kuhn et al., 2015)....
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...While acknowledging substantial fluxes coming from industrial plants (Lechner et al., 2014; Mani et al., 2015) or littering (Morritt et al., 2013), the effluents of waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) are often seen as a major source for MP (Cole et al., 2011; Mani et al., 2015)....
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...Being exposed to environmental abiotic and biotic processes, plastic undergoes degradation and fragmentation into smaller particles (Cole et al., 2011)....
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..., 2013), the effluents of waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) are often seen as a major source for MP (Cole et al., 2011; Mani et al., 2015)....
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