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Mass Balances and Life Cycle of Microplastics Across Wastewater Treatment Plant
Summary
This review chapter summarizes mass balance dynamics of microplastics across primary, secondary, and tertiary wastewater treatment stages, clarifying how much plastic is retained at each step to inform the design of more effective treatment systems.
This chapter summarises the latest developments in microplastics concerning mass balances across varieties of treatment stages like primary, secondary, and tertiary of wastewater treatment plants. The mass balances at each major stage of the wastewater system are mainly focused in this chapter. Specifically, the clarity on mass retained after each treatment is useful in designing the wastewater treatment plant. The present work emphasises on all these aspects. The work also illustrates and proposes the mass balance strategies for all three stages of wastewater treatment in the sole context. Focusing on the pollution aspects that result from microplastics, the findings are summarised with explicitly indicated future directives. The points discussed shall give insights into designing wastewater systems and their perfect use to curb this evil of microplastic pollution. The effort to understand the overall impact of microplastic pollution in the context of paradigms of mass balance in wastewater treatment plants is directed in this chapter.