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Occurrence and Characterization of Small Microplastics (<100 µm), and Microlitter in Seawater: the Venice Lagoon as a Case Study

Proceedings of the World Congress on New Technologies 2020 1 citation ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Fabiana Corami, Beatrice Rosso, Elisa Morabito, Barbara Bravo, Andrea Gambaro, Carlo Barbante

Summary

Researchers characterized small microplastics smaller than 100 micrometers and microlitter in water samples from the Venice Lagoon, finding widespread contamination by tiny plastic particles. The study addresses the analytical challenge of detecting and quantifying these sub-100-micrometer particles in seawater.

Study Type Environmental

How small can microplastics be? Plastics particles and fibers In 2019 the European Chemical Agency [3] has clearly defined microplastics and their sizes: "a material composed of solid polymer-containing particles, to which additives or other substances may have been added, with particle dimensions ranging from 1 nm to 5 mm and with fiber lengths ranging from 3 nm to 15 mm and length to diameter ratio of >3. ECHA has also firmly stated the need of polymer identification when analyzing microplastics.

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