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Assessment of the impact of local human activity on microplastic atmospheric deposition
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This paper studied the impact of local human activity on microplastic atmospheric deposition. Unfortunately, no abstract is available to provide further details about the findings. The title suggests it examines how human activities contribute to the microplastics that fall from the air, which is relevant because airborne microplastics are one pathway of human exposure through breathing.
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