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Sources andFateofMicroplastics inUrban
Areas:AFocusonParisMegacity
RachidDris, JohnnyGasperi, andBrunoTassin
Abstract Since thebeginningof the2010s, thenumberof investigationsonmicro-
plastics in freshwater increased dramatically. However, almost no study aims at
investigating the various sources and fate of microplastics in a catchment. This
chapter aims at analyzing the various sources and fate of microplastics for an
urban catchment and its hydrosystem (sewage, runoff, etc.). It presents the results
obtained during a 3-year study of the ParisMegacity. Such a study required the
developmentofappropriate samplingstrategies foreachcompartment. Itwashigh-
lighted thatfibers arehighlyconcentrated in the studiedarea, and thereforea focus
in thiscategoryofmicroplasticswascarriedout.Theatmospheric falloutexhibited
important levels of fibers. However, at the scale of the Parisian agglomeration,
wastewater treatment plant disposals and combined sewer overflows represent the
major sources (number offibers introducedper year) among the studiedones.
Keywords Fibers, Freshwater, Microplastics, Plastic pollution, Urban areas,
Urban impact
1 Introduction
Although the first scientific articles that identified plastic in the environment as
an issue are rather old [1, 2], efforts of the scientific community on this subject
actually started at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the 2004 paper
of Thompson et al. [3]. Studies highlighted the issue of microplastics (MPs)
and raise two main questions: (1) the interaction between plastic items and the
R.Dris (*), J.Gasperi, andB.Tassin
LEESU,UMRMA102, E´cole desPonts,UPEC,AgroParisTech,UPE,Paris, France
e-mail: rachid.dris@enpc.fr
M.Wagner, S.Lambert (eds.),FreshwaterMicroplastics,
HdbEnvChem58,DOI10.1007/978-3-319-61615-5_4,
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Freshwater Microplastics
Emerging Environmental Contaminants?
- Titel
- Freshwater Microplastics
- Untertitel
- Emerging Environmental Contaminants?
- Autoren
- Martin Wagner
- Scott Lambert
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2018
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-61615-5
- Abmessungen
- 15.5 x 24.1 cm
- Seiten
- 316
- Kategorien
- Naturwissenschaften Chemie