A first overview of textile fibers, including microplastics, in indoor and outdoor environments.

By Rachid Dris, J. Gaspéri, C. Mirande, C. Mandin, Mohamed Guerrouache, V. Langlois, Bruno Tassin. Environmental Pollution, 2017

1,239 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Automotive Engineering

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3. Richard C. Thompson
4. Frank J. Kelly
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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Low levels of microplastics (MP) in wild mussels indicate that MP ingestion by humans is minimal compared to exposure via household fibres fallout during a meal. (2018, methodology): “Sampling time was shorter than usual household dust passive sampling (Adams et al., 2015; Dris et al., 2017) to account for fibre fallout during the meal period only.”
• Microplastics in air: Are we breathing it in? (2018, background): “To date, and to the best of our knowledge, only two studies have demonstrated the presence of fibrous MPs in the atmospheric compartment [6,7], thereby suggesting potential human exposure.”
• Interactions between microplastics and soil fauna: A critical review (2021, background): “Furthermore, there were significant differences in the concentration of microfibers (MFs) in indoor (1 60 fiber/m3) and outdoor (0.3 1.5 fiber/m3) air (Dris et al., 2017).”
• A Global Perspective on Microplastics (2020, background): “In one of the few published studies, Dris et al. (2017) reported indoor air concentrations of microfibers of between 1.0 and 60.0 fibers m−3, exceeding outdoor levels (0.3 to 1.5 fibers m−3).”
• Airborne microplastics: Consequences to human health? (2018, positive): “Furthermore, microplastics generated indoors may contaminate the outside air, where they are diluted in the atmosphere resulting in lower concentrations (Dris et al., 2017), while only 30% of outdoor particulate matter is able to penetrate indoors in a closed room (Alzona et al., 1979).”