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Towards the Control of Microplastic Pollution in Urban Waters
Summary
This thesis investigates microplastic pollution in urban waterways, focusing on wastewater and stormwater as transport pathways from cities to receiving water bodies. Researchers found widespread microplastic presence and identified key sources, behaviors, and transport mechanisms. The work supports development of urban water management strategies specifically designed to address microplastic discharges.
Water pollution has long been considered a challenge in urban areas, and new types of pollution are continuously introduced to society. Urban wastewater and stormwater act as transport pathways of pollution from urban areas to receiving waterways. Microplastics are a new type of pollution that is being highlighted as problematic, and the presence of microplastics is widespread in the environment. The knowledge about behaviour, sources and transport pathways is still limited. Still, there have been suggestions for ways to control microplastic pollution. Moreover, many other pollutants have been introduced, and to a various extent controlled, in the urban water system before, which means that there are strategies for pollution control in place.