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Current Progress of Microplastics in Sewage Sludge

˜The œhandbook of environmental chemistry 2022 3 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
An‐Chi Huang, Dan Zhi, Yaoyu Zhou

Summary

Researchers reviewed the presence of microplastics in sewage sludge, finding that while wastewater treatment plants capture most microplastics from water, the resulting sludge becomes a concentrated reservoir that can spread microplastics to agricultural soils when applied as fertilizer.

Study Type Environmental

Microplastics (MPs), an emerging global pollutant, are widely present in different ecosystems due to the overuse of plastic worldwide, causing potential risks to the health of humans and other animals. Wastewater contains high levels of MPs, and most of them...

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