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The urban microplastic footprint: investigating the distribution and transport
2025
Inês Leitão,
Loes van Schaik,
António Ferreira,
Violette Geissen
Summary
Researchers investigated the distribution and transport of microplastics within an urban environment, mapping the 'urban microplastic footprint' to understand how city infrastructure and land use patterns drive the spatial distribution and downstream export of plastic particles to receiving water bodies.
Plastic pollution has become an escalating global issue, with large quantities of plastics being produced and taking a long time to degrade in the environment. Once in the environment, plastics break down into microplastics (