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Detection of Microplastics from Domestic Laundering Using Attenuated Total Reflectance – Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) Spectroscopy
Lecture notes in civil engineering
2024
Vigneswaran Nitharshan,
Sajani H. Kolambage,
Tharanja Gobalakrishnan,
Aravinda Nirella,
Nimantha Jayanaka,
Pradeep Gajanayake,
Rohan S. Dassanayake
Summary
Researchers used ATR-FTIR spectroscopy to detect and characterize microplastics released from domestic laundry, identifying it as a significant pathway for microplastic pollution entering waterways from everyday household textile washing.
Microplastics (MPs) are anthropogenic pollutants present predominately in rivers, lakes, oceans, remote islands, and polar regions. MPs are an emerging threat to the environment and human and animal health with potential adverse effects. Among many MP emitters,...