Synthetic fibers in atmospheric fallout: A source of microplastics in the environment?

By Rachid Dris, J. Gaspéri, M. Saad, C. Mirande, Bruno Tassin. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2016

1,796 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Airborne microplastics: Consequences to human health? (2018, positive): “Indeed, synthetic clothing is thought to be the main source of airborne microplastics (Dris et al., 2016), fiber material and quantity dependent on fashion and season (Roux and Margot, 1997).”
• Microplastics pollution in inland freshwaters of China: A case study in urban surface waters of Wuhan, China. (2017, background): “, 2011), as well as the deposition of airborne matters (Dris et al., 2016).”
• Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review on occurrence, environmental effects, and methods for microplastics detection. (2017, methodology): “L water samples, while the volume of 100mL and 2 L was only collected for the studies by Dubaish and Liebezeit (2013) and Leslie et al. (2017), respectively.”