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Microplastics in Landfill and Leachate

2024
Mahbub Alam, Maisha Binte Sultan, Amit Hasan Anik, Shabiha Hossain, Alamgir Kabir, Alamgir Kabir, MD Tanvir Hasnine, Qiuyan Yuan

Summary

This chapter comprehensively reviewed microplastic sources, concentrations, transport pathways, and removal techniques within landfills and their leachate — a heavily overlooked but significant vector for microplastic release into surrounding soils and waterways. Landfills act as long-term reservoirs that continuously leach microplastics into groundwater and surface water, making leachate treatment a critical and underaddressed frontier in pollution control.

This chapter comprehensively examines the current literature on microplastics (MPs) in landfills and leachate, focusing on sources, occurrence, characteristics, fate, transport mechanisms, environmental implications, and removal techniques. Landfills serve as...

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