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Long-Term Environmental Change Monitoring in the Sagami River Estuary, Part 10: Investigation of Microplastics in the Estuarine Ecosystem
Original title: 相模川河口域における長期環境変動のモニタリング10 （河口域生態系マイクロプラスチックの実態の検討）
Summary
As part of long-term environmental monitoring of the Sagami River estuary in Japan, this study investigated microplastics along the riverbanks and Sagami Bay. Polyethylene and polypropylene dominated the recovered plastics, and FT-IR (ATR) spectroscopy proved effective for identifying polymer types in environmental samples.
As part of the long-term monitoring of environmental changes in the Sagami River mouth, microplastics were investigated along the riverbanks of the Sagami Bay Estuary. Most of the plastics recovered were polyethylene and polypropylene. The FT-IR (ATR) technique was effective to identify the polymer species in the samples.