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Preliminary studies on the microplastic pollution in Dal lake, Kashmir (first report)

Advances in Environmental Research 2020 5 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Juhi Firdous, Yatindra Kumar Mathur, Mubashir Jeelani, Adnan Aziz, Seema Azmat, Syeed Mudasir

Summary

This study provides the first documented detection of microplastics in Dal Lake in Kashmir, India. Researchers found microplastics at all four sampling stations in surface water, with fibers and fragments being the most common types. The findings establish baseline contamination data for a culturally important and ecologically sensitive high-altitude lake.

We provide the first study on the occurrence of microplastics in Dal lake, Kashmir, India. Microplastics act as catastrophe that trigger many environmental problems. The key origins of microplastics are larger plastics, which split into smaller plastics after UV light disintegration. There is relatively little work carried out on the existence of microplastics. The present work has been undertaken on the occurrence of microplastics at four pre-selected sites (surface water) in Dal lake, Kashmir. The samples were taken to the laboratory to dissolve organic matter by using H2O2 (6%). To speed up the organic digestion; the treated mixture was heated on a hot plate at 70

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