Microplastics in a small river: Occurrence and influencing factors along the river Oker, Northern Germany.

Microplastics point source Plastic pollution River catchment Small stream Wastewater treatment plant

Journal

Journal of contaminant hydrology
ISSN: 1873-6009
Titre abrégé: J Contam Hydrol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8805644

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
14 May 2024
Historique:
received: 11 01 2024
revised: 22 04 2024
accepted: 13 05 2024
medline: 18 5 2024
pubmed: 18 5 2024
entrez: 17 5 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Much attention regarding the environmental pollution by plastics had focused on the Oceans. More recently, contamination of freshwater ecosystems has been addressed but information from smaller rivers in moderately populated catchments is still comparatively scarce. This study explored the microplastic (MP) occurrence in the small regional river Oker, Northern Germany (catchment area 1822 km

Identifiants

pubmed: 38759476
pii: S0169-7722(24)00070-6
doi: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104366
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doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

104366

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Lina Büngener (L)

Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland. Electronic address: lina.bungener@oulu.fi.

Sarah-Maria Schäffer (SM)

Institute of Geosystems and Bioindication, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.

Anja Schwarz (A)

Institute of Geosystems and Bioindication, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.

Antje Schwalb (A)

Institute of Geosystems and Bioindication, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.

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