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Remediation of Contaminated Waters with Microplastics

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Irma Pérez-Silva, Tanese Montesinos-Vázquez, María Elena Páez-Hernández

Summary

Researchers reviewed physical, chemical, and biological remediation technologies for removing microplastics from contaminated waters, evaluating the effectiveness and scalability of approaches including filtration, coagulation, and advanced oxidation as plastic production — and resulting contamination — continues to rise globally.

Polymeric materials have had an exponential growth since the Second World War, so that in 2018 the annual world production was 359 million tons. This has generated a contamination problem because of its prolonged exposure to various chemical and environmental factors...

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