Microplastics in freshwater systems: a review of the emerging threats, identification of knowledge gaps and prioritisation of research needs.

By D. Eerkes-Medrano, Richard C. Thompson, D. Aldridge. Water Research, 2015

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. Huahong Shi
2. L. Su
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Citations in the corpus

• Microplastics pollution in inland freshwaters of China: A case study in urban surface waters of Wuhan, China. (2017, methodology): “Although a large proportion of the waste has been recycled or landfilled, still a considerable amount of plastic waste entered into the aquatic system (Cole et al., 2011; Eerkes-Medrano et al., 2015).”
• Release of synthetic microplastic plastic fibres from domestic washing machines: Effects of fabric type and washing conditions. (2016, background): “Microplastics can be ingested by a wide range of species both in marine (Anastasopoulou et al., 2013; Gall and Thompson, 2015; Lusher et al., 2013) and freshwater environments (Sanchez et al., 2014; Eerkes-Medrano et al., 2015).”
• Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater Environments: A Review, Focusing on Interactions with Sediments and Benthic Organisms (2020, methodology): “Other methods which can be applied are thermo-analytical approaches such as gaschromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) or pyrolysis GC-MS [1,59].”
• Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review on occurrence, environmental effects, and methods for microplastics detection. (2017, background): “The concentration factor of microplastics from surrounding waters to seals was reported to be as high as 160 times (Eriksson and Burton, 2003; Wright et al., 2013b; Eerkes-Medrano et al., 2015).”
• A Global Perspective on Microplastics (2020, background): “The occurrence of microplastics in freshwaters has been reviewed (Eerkes‐Medrano et al., 2015; Horton et al., 2017; Li et al., 2018; Wagner et al., 2014).”
• Microplastic-Associated Biofilms: A Comparison of Freshwater and Marine Environments (2018, background): “Further to these factors, physical processes contributing to the movement of suspended particles differ between freshwater and marine habitats [2].”
• Assessment of microplastics in freshwater systems: A review. (2019, background): “Selective sampling (consisting of visual sorting) has been mainly utilised for surface sediments, whereas bulk or volume-reduced sampling, has been used to analyse microplastics from sediments or water samples (Eerkes-Medrano et al., 2015).”
• Wear and Tear of Tyres: A Stealthy Source of Microplastics in the Environment (2017, background): “To what extent foodborne exposure to microplastics poses a human health risk is not well-understood [95].”