| Literature DB >> 31838382 |
Hua Deng1, Ren Wei2, Wenya Luo1, Lingling Hu1, Bowen Li1, Ya'nan Di3, Huahong Shi4.
Abstract
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.Entities:
Keywords: Fiber; Microplastics; Point source; Textile industrial area
Year: 2019 PMID： 31838382 DOI： 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113658
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Environ Pollut ISSN： 0269-7491 Impact factor: 8.071