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Wastewater treatment plants as a source of microplastics in river catchments

It is now well established that the oceans contain significant accumulations of plastic debris but only very recently have studies began to look at sources of microplastics (MPs) in river catchments. This work measured MPs up- and downstream of six wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in different ca...

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Autores principales: Kay, Paul, Hiscoe, Robert, Moberley, Isobel, Bajic, Luke, McKenna, Niamh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6061495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29881968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-2070-7