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Microplastic pollution in urban stormwater inlet sediments influenced by land use type of runoff drainage area
Summary
Researchers analyzed microplastic contamination in urban stormwater inlet sediments across different land use types in Ma'anshan City, China. They found microplastics present in all locations, with sediments near main roads showing the highest contamination at over 1,100 items per kilogram, roughly double that of other land use types. The study reveals that polypropylene was the dominant polymer across all areas, and that the characteristics of microplastic pollution vary systematically with surrounding land use patterns.
Since the urban stormwater inlet (USI) acts as a link in the migration of microplastics (MPs) in stormwater, sufficient information on MPs in USI sediments is very important for understanding urban diffuse microplastic pollution. In this study, the abundance and characteristics of MPs in the USI sediments of Ma'anshan City, China, were analyzed based on urban land use type. MPs were prevalent in the USI sediments, with the average abundances of 536.77 ± 313.92 items·kg for commercial areas, 505.64 ± 400.82 items·kg for campuses, 694.71 ± 219.95 items·kg for industrial areas, 526.41 ± 152.34 items·kg for residential areas, and 1107.75 ± 422.10 items·kg for main roads, indicating a high microplastic pollution in the USI sediments from main roads. The microplastic polymers were mainly polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and polystyrene (PS), accounting for 46.75 %-100.00 %, with PP MPs being the most abundant. Fiber MPs had the highest proportion in USI sediments from both campuses (35.30 %) and industrial areas (38.19 %), while film MPs were the most abundant for both commercial areas (39.91 %) and residential areas (35.65 %). The average proportions of fiber (27.29 %), fragment (29.18 %), and film (28.68 %) were almost equal for main roads, unlike other land use types. Except for campuses, transparent MPs were the most common for all land use types, with average proportions of 29.60 %-42.70 %. The proportions of MPs with sizes of <1000 μm were 72.54 % for commercial areas, 77.11 % for campuses, 76.05 % for industrial areas, 70.76 % for residential areas, and 74.29 % for main roads, respectively, with a consistent result with previous study that the MPs of <1000 μm are the predominant in the environment. This study enriches the knowledge of microplastic pollution in USI sediments and will benefit the mitigation of diffuse microplastic pollution.
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