Microplastic pollution in water and sediment in a textile industrial area.
Fiber
Microplastics
Point source
Textile industrial area
Journal
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
ISSN: 1873-6424
Titre abrégé: Environ Pollut
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8804476
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2020
Mar 2020
Historique:
received:
21
05
2019
revised:
14
11
2019
accepted:
20
11
2019
pubmed:
16
12
2019
medline:
9
4
2020
entrez:
16
12
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Microplastics pollution in the environment is closely determined by the surrounding industrial and human activities. In present study, we investigated microplastics in water and sediment samples collected from a textile industrial area in Shaoxing city, China. The abundance of microplastics varied from 2.1 to 71.0 items/L in surface water samples, and from 16.7 to 1323.3 items/kg (dw) in sediment samples. The polymer type was dominated by polyester both in water (95%) and sediment (79%) samples. The majority of the detected microplastics was predominantly colored fibers smaller than 1 mm in diameter. The high level of microplastic pollution detected in local freshwater and sediment environments was attributed to the production and trading activities of textile industries, for which severe regulations should be envisaged in the future to effectively reduce the local microplastic pollution.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31838382
pii: S0269-7491(19)31374-0
doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113658
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Microplastics
0
Plastics
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
113658Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare no competing financial interest.