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“Down by the River”: (Micro-) Plastic Pollution of Running Freshwaters with Special Emphasis on the Austrian Danube

2020 11 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Aaron Lechner

Summary

Researchers examined how rivers, including Austria's Danube, act as major highways for transporting microplastics from land into the ocean, carrying a wide variety of plastic types in high concentrations. Understanding river transport pathways is key to identifying pollution sources and designing effective interventions before plastics reach the sea.

The significance of rivers and streams as transport vectors of terrestrial plastic debris has long been neglected. It is now known, however, that flowing waters have high concentrations of a variety of plastics, differing in chemical composition, physical properties...

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