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Environmental Sources
Marine & Wildlife
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Challenging the Microplastic Extraction from Sandy Sediments
Springer water
2017
7 citations
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Kedzierski, Mikaël,
Véronique Le Tilly,
Patrick Bourseau,
Hervé Bellegou,
Guy César,
Olivier Sire,
Stéphane Bruzaud
Summary
Researchers addressed the methodological challenge of extracting microplastics — especially the smallest particles — from sandy beach sediments. Developing reliable extraction methods is a critical step toward accurately measuring how much plastic pollution exists in coastal environments.
As plastic particles are one of the most commonly waste found on beaches [1], this pollution requires the use of innovative extraction methodologies especially for smallest size ranges of plastic particles, as microplastics.