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Microplastics: What Can We Learn from Clastic Sediments?

Springer water 2023
Kryss Waldschläger, Muriel Brückner, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Christopher Hackney, Tanveer M. Adyel, Olubukola S. Alimi, Sara L. Belontz, Win Cowger, Darragh Doyle, Andrew B. Gray, Ian Kane, Merel Kooi, Matthias Kramer, Simone Lechthaler, Laura Michie, Tor Nordam, Florian Pohl, Catherine Russell, Amalie Thit, Wajid Umar, Daniel Valero, Arianna Varrani, Anish Kumar Warrier, Lucy C. Woodall, Nan Wu

Summary

An interdisciplinary review compared microplastics to natural clastic sediments, drawing on decades of sedimentology research to better understand microplastic transport, deposition, and environmental fate. Applying established sediment science frameworks to microplastics research could accelerate understanding of how these particles move through ecosystems and ultimately reach human food and water supplies.

Study Type Environmental

Microplastics research has gained momentum in the 21st century but lags behind the long-standing research on clastic sediment. An interdisciplinary review paper was conducted, comparing microplastics with natural sediments in terms of particle properties,...

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