Microplastic pollution is widely detected in US municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent.

By S. Mason, D. Garneau, R. Sutton, Yvonne Chu, K. Ehmann, J. Barnes, P. Fink, Daniel Papazissimos, D. L. Rogers. Environmental Pollution, 2016

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Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater Environments: A Review, Focusing on Interactions with Sediments and Benthic Organisms (2020, background): “For these reasons is crucial to understand the role of WWTPs in the dispersion processes of MPs in water ecosystems.”
Occurrence of microplastics in raw and treated drinking water. (2018, methodology): “, 2018) and even sampling sieves of mesh size ranging from dozens to hundreds of μm are often used (Andrary, 2011; Eerkes-Medrano et al., 2015; Mason et al., 2016; Su et al., 2016; Anderson et al., 2017; Di and Wang, 2018).”
Occurrence, identification and removal of microplastic particles and fibers in conventional activated sludge process and advanced MBR technology. (2018, background): “…as a route of microplastics, have started to gain more attention only during recent years (Carr et al., 2016; Dris et al., 2015; Magnusson and Nor en, 2014; Mahon et al., 2017; Mason et al., 2016; Michielssen et al., 2016; Mintenig et al., 2017; Murphy et al., 2016; Talvitie et al., 2015, 2017b).”