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[Occurrence Characteristic and Risk Assessment of Microplastics in Sishui River (Xingyang Section)].
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Researchers characterized microplastics in water samples from sewage outlet sites along the Sishui River (Xingyang section), a Yellow River tributary, finding predominantly transparent fibers and fragments under 500 micrometers composed mainly of PET and PE polymers and conducting ecological risk assessment.
Urban rivers are the main receptors and transporters of microplastic pollution. Understanding the occurrence and environmental risk of microplastics in urban rivers can provide theoretical basis for further control of microplastic pollution. The Sishui River, a tributary of the Yellow River, was selected as the research object. A total of nine water samples were collected from sewage outlets of the Sishui River (Xingyang section). The microplastics in the collected samples were characterized by their sizes, shapes, and colors using a microscope. It was found that microplastics were mostly in the form of transparent fibers and fragments in the water body of sewage outlets, of which the size below 500 μm was relatively high. In addition, PET and PE polymers were identified as the main types using a laser infrared imager. The correlation analysis showed that there was a significant correlation between the PET and PE, indicating that they were similar in origin. The results of the environmental risk assessment showed that the type of microplastics was the main factor affecting the assessment results, whereas the risk values of six sewage samples containing PVC were high. However, the value of pollution load index revealed a low risk level of pollutants in the study area.
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