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Assessment of Microplastic Pollution in Sarno River
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Researchers conducted a preliminary study on microplastic pollution in the Sarno River in Italy, finding that the complexity of the water samples required developing specialized analytical protocols to accurately detect and quantify plastic particles in this heavily polluted waterway.
In this contribution, a preliminary study on the presence of microplastics in the Sarno River is reported. The complexity of the water samples recovered from the river highlights the necessity to develop an ad hoc analytical protocol to analyse and quantify...
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