Microplastic pollution in water and sediment in a textile industrial area

Hua Deng; Ren Wei; Wenya Luo; Lingling Hu; Bowen Li; Ya'nan Di; Huahong Shi

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113658

Microplastic pollution in water and sediment in a textile industrial area

Hua Deng
, Ren Wei
, Wenya Luo
, Lingling Hu
, Bowen Li
, Ya'nan Di
, Huahong Shi^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (School of Marine Sciences)

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Microplastics pollution in the environment is closely determined by the surrounding industrial and human activities. In present study, we investigated microplastics in water and sediment samples collected from a textile industrial area in Shaoxing city, China. The abundance of microplastics varied from 2.1 to 71.0 items/L in surface water samples, and from 16.7 to 1323.3 items/kg (dw) in sediment samples. The polymer type was dominated by polyester both in water (95%) and sediment (79%) samples. The majority of the detected microplastics was predominantly colored fibers smaller than 1 mm in diameter. The high level of microplastic pollution detected in local freshwater and sediment environments was attributed to the production and trading activities of textile industries, for which severe regulations should be envisaged in the future to effectively reduce the local microplastic pollution.

Original language	English
Article number	113658
Journal	Environmental Pollution
Volume	258
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113658
State	Published - Mar 2020

Keywords

Fiber
Microplastics
Point source
Textile industrial area

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Microplastic pollution in water and sediment in a textile industrial area

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