Transport and fate of microplastic particles in wastewater treatment plants.

By Steve A Carr, Jin Liu, Arnold G Tesoro. Water Research, 2016

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Microplastics in Taihu Lake, China. (2016, background): “Even if waste water treatment plants are able to remove microplastics from their effluent (Carr et al., 2016), waste water originating from rural nonpoint sources has no treatment and will still constitute a significant source of water pollution to Taihu Lake (Wang et al., 2010).”
• Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities. (2017, background): “…185 (dependent on the processes employed by the treatment plant), the sheer number of particles 186 entering the system may still allow a significant number to bypass filtration systems and be released 187 into the freshwater environment with effluent (Carr et al., 2016; Murphy et al., 2016).”
• Occurrence, identification and removal of microplastic particles and fibers in conventional activated sludge process and advanced MBR technology. (2018, methodology): “, 2017) and others have relied on a combined methodology of identification by defining possible microplastics visually and then analyzing only part of them (Carr et al., 2016; Magnusson and Nor en, 2014; Mintenig et al., 2017).”
• Assessment of microplastics in freshwater systems: A review. (2019, background): “At the same time, microplastic particles in the effluent of a sewage treatment plant were very similar in colour, shape and size to those in toothpaste formulations, revealing that the plastic particles in personal care products may be among the sources of microplastic pollution in freshwater enviro”
• Identification of microplastic in effluents of waste water treatment plants using focal plane array-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging. (2017, neutral): “Quantitative data are available from few non-peer-reviewed reports (Leslie et al., 2013; Magnusson and Nor (cid:2) en, 2014; Talvitie and Heinonen, 2014) or peer-reviewed studies from Australia (Browne et al., 2011), the UK (Murphy et al., 2016), France (Dris et al., 2015), Finland (Talvitie et al.,”
• (Nano)plastics in the environment - Sources, fates and effects. (2016, background): “Though existing wastewater treatment processes have been shown to effectively remove microplastics (Carr et al., 2016), thismay not be the case for smaller particles, such as nanoplastics.”