1. Abundance and characteristics of microplastics in an urban wastewater treatment plant in Turkey
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Gökhan Ekrem Üstün, Kübra Bozdaş, and Tuğba Can
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Sewage ,Turkey ,Microplastics ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,General Medicine ,Wastewater ,Toxicology ,Plastics ,Waste Disposal, Fluid ,Pollution ,Water Pollutants, Chemical ,Environmental Monitoring ,Water Purification - Abstract
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are considered one of the important sources of aquatic/terrestrial microplastic (MP) pollution. Therefore, the abundance and properties of MPs in the wastewater and sludge of an urban WWTP in Bursa Turkey were investigated. The amount, properties, and removal of MPs were evaluated. The results showed that the average abundance of MPs was 135.3 ± 28.0 n/L in the influent and 8.5 ± 4.7 n/L in the effluent, with a 93.7% removal rate, MP was removed and transferred to the sludge. The daily MP amount released in the aquatic environment is calculated as 525 million MPs, and the annual amount is 1.9 × 10
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- 2022
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