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Wastewater treatment plants as a pathway for microplastics: Development of a new approach to sample wastewater-based microplastics.
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It is suggested that although low concentrations of microplastics are detected in wastewater effluent, WWTPs still have the potential to act as a pathway to release microplastic given the large volumes of effluent discharged to the aquatic environment.About:
This article is published in Water Research.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 719 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microplastics & Wastewater.read more
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Microplastics in freshwaters and drinking water: Critical review and assessment of data quality.
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 wastewater treatment plants: Detection, occurrence and removal
TL;DR: In this review, the up-to-date status on the detection, occurrence and removal of microplastics in WWTPs are comprehensively reviewed and the development of potential microplastic-targeted treatment technologies is presented.
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Solutions to microplastic pollution - Removal of microplastics from wastewater effluent with advanced wastewater treatment technologies.
TL;DR: The study shows that with advanced final-stage wastewater treatment technologies WWTPs can substantially reduce the MP pollution discharged from wastewater treatment plants into the aquatic environments.
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Evidence of microplastic accumulation in agricultural soils from sewage sludge disposal
Fabio Corradini,Pablo Meza,Raúl Eguiluz,Francisco Casado,Esperanza Huerta-Lwanga,Violette Geissen +5 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that microplastic counts increase over time where successive sludge applications are performed, and stress the relevance of sludge as a driver of soil microplastics contamination.
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Current research trends on plastic pollution and ecological impacts on the soil ecosystem: A review
Yooeun Chae,Youn-Joo An +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that earthworms have been predominantly used as the test species in investigating the effects of soil plastic pollution on organisms, and further research investigatingThe effects of plastic on other species models (invertebrates, plants, microorganisms, and insects) are required to understand the effects on the overall soil ecosystem.
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Accumulation of Microplastic on Shorelines Woldwide: Sources and Sinks
Mark Anthony Browne,Mark Anthony Browne,Mark Anthony Browne,Phillip Crump,S. J. Niven,Emma L. Teuten,Andrew Tonkin,Tamara S. Galloway,Richard C. Thompson +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that microplastic contaminates the shorelines at 18 sites worldwide representing six continents from the poles to the equator, with more material in densely populated areas, but no clear relationship between the abundance of miocroplastics and the mean size-distribution of natural particulates.
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Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review of the emerging threats, identification of knowledge gaps and prioritisation of research needs
TL;DR: The issue of microplastics in freshwater systems is reviewed to summarise current understanding, identify knowledge gaps and suggest future research priorities.
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Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes
Marcus Eriksen,Sherri A. Mason,Stiv Wilson,Carolyn Box,A.F. Zellers,William J. Edwards,Hannah Farley,Stephen Amato +7 more
TL;DR: The presence of microplastics and coal ash in these surface samples, which were most abundant where lake currents converge, are likely from nearby urban effluent and coal burning power plants.
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Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) as a Source of Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment
TL;DR: This study shows that despite the efficient removal rates of MP achieved by this modern treatment plant when dealing with such a large volume of effluent even a modest amount of microplastics being released per liter of Effluent could result in significant amounts of micro Plastics entering the environment.
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Transport and fate of microplastic particles in wastewater treatment plants.
TL;DR: The results suggest that tertiary effluent is not a significant source of microplastics and that these plastic pollutants are effectively removed during the skimming and settling treatment processes.