MARINE POLLUTION FROM MICROPLASTIC FIBRES BRIEFING BY FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL JANUARY 2018 THE PROBLEM? Increasingly, marine and freshwater habitats are Wastewater treatment facilities currently in found to be contaminated by tiny plastic fibres (also operation in the UK were not designed to capture termed “microfibres” or microplastic ...
EPA’s Microplastic Beach Protocol A Community Science Protocol for Sampling Microplastic Pollution September 2021 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: WHAT ARE MICROPLASTICS? .................................................... 3 WHAT YOU NEED TO GET STARTED ....................................................................... 4 INSTALLING THE MARINE DEBRIS TRACKER ON YOUR SMARTPHONE ........... 5 SETTING UP YOUR SAMPLING AREA ..................................................................... 7 COLLECTING YOUR SAMPLES .............................................................................. 10 ...
Sustinere Journal of Environment and Sustainability Volume 5 Number 3 (2021) 155-165 Print ISSN: 2549-1245 Online ISSN: 2549-1253 Website: https://sustinerejes.com E-mail: sustinere.jes@iain-surakarta.ac.id RESEARCH PAPER Initial investigation of microplastic pollution in river sediments at Yogyakarta City Indonesia 1,2* 2 2 2 1 Inggita Utami , Pidianto , Fahmi ...
Microplastic in Danish wastewater Sources, occurrences and fate Environmental Project No. 1906 Marts 2017 Publisher: The Danish Environmental Protection Agency Editor: Professor Jes Vollertsen, Aalborg University and Aviaja Anna Hansen, Kruger A/S ISBN: 978-87-93529-44-1 The Danish Environmental Protection Agency publishes reports and papers about research and development projects within the ...
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/401331; this version posted August 27, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 A serial dilution method for assessment of microplastic toxicity in suspension 2 Zandra ...
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (Environmental Biotechnology) CALL FOR PROPOSALS for BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS FOR MITIGATING MICROPLASTIC POLLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATIVES TO SINGLE USE PLASTIC Background: Plastic waste is one of the most formidable challenge in today’s world. As per reports for recent ...
How EU policy can tackle microplastic poll u t i o n 1 Microplastics are everywhere in the environment in the ocean and on land, even in remote regions of the world still considered pristine. Microplastic pollution has recently been Research has found solid and extensive evaluated at 24,4 ...
Study of microplastic sediment abundance in Palu Bay, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia Irawati M. Widiastuti, Novalina Serdiati, Akbar M. Tahya Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, Tadulako University, Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Corresponding author: I. M. Widiastuti, irawatimei69@gmail.com Abstract. Plastic waste is a complex problem in the ...
Scientific Report on Tyre and Road Wear Particles, TRWP, in the aquatic environment by Prof. emer. Martin Jekel, TU Berlin prepared for ETRMA, Brussels July 17, 2019 1 Contents Preface ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 1. General introduction ........................................................................................................................... 4 2. Definitions and Acronyms: .................................................................................................................. 5 3. Composition of tyres – an overview .................................................................................................... 8 4. Formation ...
Microplastic Marine Debris What are Microplastics? Microplastics are small plastic pieces or fibers that are smaller than 5 mm in size. They come in many forms including beads, fragments, pellets, fibers, and more. Primary microplastics are made to be small and can come in the form of resin pellets and ...
MICROPLASTICS: TROUBLE IN THE FOOD CHAIN Microplastics: Photo Credit: Crystal51/ Shutterstock.com Trouble in the Food Chain Plastics in the environment be found worldwide: in the water of lakes and seas, in the sediments of rivers and deltas, and in the stomachs of various As the world’s demand for ...
Eionet Report - ETC/CE 2022/1 Microplastic pollution from textile consumption in Europe February 2022 Authors: ETC experts: Saskia Manshoven (VITO), Anse Smeets (VITO), Christian Malarciuc (CSCP), Anna Tenhunen (VTT) EEA experts: Lars Fogh Mortensen ETC/CE consortium partners: Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Czech Environmental Information Agency (CENIA), Collaborating Centre ...
Microplastic pollution: the causes, consequences and issues for investors First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute B Microplastics: The issue Contents About the institute 1 Setting the scene 4 The Microplastics Ecosystem 5 Microplastics: The issue 9 1. Introduction 11 2. Microplastics as hazards to environmental and human health 13 3 ...
Marine Pollution Bulletin 77 (2013) 177–182 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Marine Pollution Bulletin journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/marpolbul Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes a, b,1 a,2 a,3 c,4 d,5 ⇑ Marcus Eriksen , Sherri Mason , Stiv Wilson , Carolyn ...
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