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Microplastic Removal Time in Saigon River

Lecture notes in civil engineering 2022
Tuan Dang Pham, Minh Huy Nguyen, Thu Ha Nguyen

Summary

Researchers investigated the time required for microplastics to be naturally removed from the Saigon River, examining how these toxic-additive-carrying particles move through aquatic food webs and what environmental conditions influence their residence time and eventual departure from freshwater systems.

Study Type Environmental

Microplastics have been a serious problem for the aquatic life because they can convey toxic additives to the food web networks where human is at the highest level. However, the harm is supposed to be less if microplastics are out of the water body, which can be...

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