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Microplastic pollution and quantitative source apportionment in the Jiangsu coastal area, China
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Researchers investigated microplastic pollution in the Jiangsu coastal area of China, finding average surface water concentrations of 0.10 items/m and sediment concentrations of 0.19 items/g, with higher abundances nearshore and in southern zones, and quantified shipping, fishing, and terrestrial runoff as major sources.
We investigated the pollution characteristics, the spatial distributions of microplastics, and the source compositions in the Jiangsu Coastal Area, China. The average abundance of microplastics in the surface water and sediment were 0.0998 ± 0.0720 items/m (using a trawl with 333-μm mesh)and 0.1858 ± 0.0927items/g, respectively. The concentration of microplastics showed a distribution trend of high near shore and low far shore in the east-west direction, and were the highest in the southernmost part. According to microplastics found in the surface water, the results of a quantitative source apportionment indicate that the most common source in the northernmost and southernmost regions were clothing fibers, accounting for 38.40% and 40.44% of the total source, respectively. While the major source type in the middle region was the decomposition of hard, large plastic waste. Finally, we suggested some control measures for the main types of microplastics observed in the different regions.
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