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Occurrence And Fate Of Microplastics In Urban Freshwater Systems
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Microplastics were found in urban freshwater pond sediments at highly variable concentrations, with buoyant particles dominating by mass and water mixing playing a key role in distributing plastic particles through the water column.
MP content in the pond sediments varied up to two orders of magnitude.• Buoyant MPs made up 95.4 % of the MPmass and 83.5 % of the MP-number.• No trend in the spatial distribution of MPsneither concentration, size, nor polymer • Mixing is an important factor for transporting buoyant MPs to the pond sediments.• Sediment contents of silt and organic matter correlate with the MP-distribution.
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