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Microplastics in Urban Environments: Sources, Pathways, and Distribution

˜The œhandbook of environmental chemistry 2020 71 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Rongliang Qiu, Yang Song, Xiaoting Zhang, Bing Xie, Defu He

Summary

Researchers mapped the major sources and pathways of microplastic pollution in cities, finding that tire wear, laundry wastewater, landfills, and construction activity collectively make urban areas major generators of the microplastics that flow into surrounding air, water, and soil.

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rubber

Due to high-density anthropic activity, the urban environment is regarded as one of the major sources of microplastics (MPs). MPs can be produced in the process of tire wear, landfill and sewage treatment, construction, industrial activity, household laundry, and so...

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