[HTML][HTML] Insights into the removal of microplastics and microfibres by Advanced Oxidation Processes

NO Dos Santos, R Busquets, LC Campos - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water treatment plants' effluents are hotspots of microplastics (MPs) and microfibres (MFs)
released into the aquatic environment because they were not designed to capture these …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastics and nanoplastics in haemodialysis waters: Emerging threats to be in our radar

RS Passos, A Davenport, R Busquets, C Selden… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics are present in the environment, in drinking water, in human blood and there is
evidence of nanoplastics in tap water. The objective of this work was to analyze the …

Identification and quantification of nanoplastics (20–1000 nm) in a drinking water treatment plant using AFM-IR and Pyr-GC/MS

Y Li, C Zhang, Z Tian, X Cai, B Guan - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanoplastics, owing to their small particle size, pose a significant threat to creatures,
deserving heightened attention. Numerous studies have investigated microplastics pollution …

Granular limestone amended sand filters for enhanced removal of nanoplastics from water: Performance and mechanisms

X Li, Y Zhang, H Xu, Y Sun, B Gao, J Wu - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Effluent from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has been regarded as one of the major
contributors of nanoplastics (NPs) in the environment. Improving the performance of rapid …

Effects of ionic strength and particle size on transport of microplastic and humic acid in porous media

W Zhao, Z Su, T Geng, Y Zhao, Y Tian, P Zhao - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
As an emerging pollutant, the transport behavior of colloidal microplastic particles (CMPs) in
saturated porous media may be affected by the simultaneous presence of other substances …

Microplastics attenuation from surface water to drinking water: impact of treatment and managed aquifer recharge–and identification uncertainties

D la Cecilia, M Philipp, R Kaegi, M Schirmer… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
River water can be used to recharge aquifers exploited for drinking water production.
Several recent studies reported microplastics (MPs) in river water, and therefore, the …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring contaminants of emerging concern in aquatic systems through the lens of citizen science

NV Raman, A Dubey, E Millar, V Nava, B Leoni… - Science of the total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global urbanization trends have led to the widespread increasing occurrence of
contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) such as pharmaceuticals, personal care …

Removal of polymethyl methacrylate nanoplastics and silver nanoparticles by a novel ferrofluid-COF-aminated natural cotton-based hydrogel nanosorbent

ME Mahmoud, MF Amira, ME Abouelanwar… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, an innovative nanosorbent is assembled based on the combination of Fe 2 VO
6 ferrofluid, silane covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and gelatin/aminated natural …

Oligomers are a major fraction of the submicrometre particles released during washing of polyester textiles

T Yang, Y Xu, G Liu, B Nowack - Nature Water, 2024 - nature.com
Synthetic textiles are a significant source of microplastic fibre pollution. While the
microplastic fibre release mechanism during the washing of textiles is well studied, little is …

Microplastics and nanoplastics in agriculture—A potential source of soil and groundwater contamination?

C Moeck, G Davies, S Krause, U Schneidewind - Grundwasser, 2023 - Springer
An overview of the current state of knowledge on the pollution of agricultural soils with
microplastic and nanoplastic (MnP) particles is provided and the main MnP sources are …