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Microplastic Pollution Mitigation from Fresh and Marine Water Bodies
Summary
This review examines natural processes that remove microplastics from aquatic environments and discusses mitigation strategies to reduce the input of microplastics through treated wastewater discharges. The chapter notes a significant discrepancy between estimated microplastic inputs to the ocean and the much lower quantities actually measured, suggesting active removal mechanisms warrant further investigation.
Microplastics constitute a widespread and ever-increasing pollutant in global water systems. Notably, the estimated amount of microplastics in the ocean is much less than the estimated input. The natural processes that make microplastics disappear from the water environment and ways to mitigate the extent of microplastics entering into water systems with treated wastewater are discussed. This chapter describes in detail microplastic contamination mitigation methods from fresh and marine water bodies.