Scientists are rushing to study the tiny plastic specks that are in marine animals — and in us. By XiaoZhi Lim Microplastics collected from the Magothy River in Maryland. Credit: Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program Listen to an audio version of this story ...
Overall, the particle-tracking model in the absence of both the sink term (i.e.,τ → ∞) and fishery-based sources did a good job of reproducing the meridional contrast such that the microplastic abundance in the North Pacific was an order of magnitude larger than that in the South ...
The chart in Fig. 5 displays how the amount of microplastics indoors is affected by the total time of ventilation. It was observed through the experiment that the amount of microplastic present indoors decreased with an increase in the duration of ventilation. It has already been observed and ...
Special and specific analyses are presented in the legend of each corresponding chart. 3. Results 3.1. Effect of single and combined 5MP and TBT exposure on body weight and TG and AST in serum All mice were alive after 33 days of single and combined 5MP and TBT exposure. No significant ...
Eo S et al (2021) Prevalence of small high-density microplastics in the continental shelf and deep sea waters of East Asia. Water Res 200:117238 CAS Google Scholar Eriksen M et al (2023) A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world...
Since the 1980s, HSI has been applied in a broad spectrum of fields. Remote sensing with HSI has been applied underwater and in space [9,35,36]. The medical field uses HSI to identify tissues such as nerves, cancer cells and burn wounds [11]. Food processing industries use HSI for qu...
In order to test different treatment methods with real wastewater and sludge, samples were collected from Kenkäveronniemi WWTP (Mikkeli, Finland) and used as test media. Influent water was collected after 6 mm screen, in the beginning of the grit separation basin, with a 10-L stainless ste...
Unfortunately, the substances deployed only connect to the polymer matrix in a very unstable way, with the result being release into the environment made contact with, be this water, the air, food or body tissues. Synthetic plastics disintegrate most rapidly in conditions of increased humidity, ...
Four (36%) publications described adsorption and absorption of chemicals to microplastic surfaces, three (27%) focused on microplastics in water, three (27%) studied microplastics in food, and one (9%) described microplastics in air and dust. Figure 6. Displays the number of publications in ...
Point sources of microplastics pollution are effluent discharges and inputs from urban drainage systems [12]; non-point sources include runoff from arable land, and breakdown of in situ plastic litter [4,13]. Atmospheric deposition of fibres can be an important source of microplastics in water...