Microplastics in wastewater and sludge from centralized and decentralized wastewater treatment plants: Effects of treatment systems and microplastic characteristics

Domestic wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a vital role in limiting the release of microplastics (MP) into the environment. This study examined MP removal efficiency from five centralized and four decentralized domestic WWTPs in Bangkok, Thailand. MP concentrations in wastewater and sludge we...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Chemosphere (Oxford) 2024-08, Vol.361, p.142536, Article 142536
Hauptverfasser:	Maw, Me Me, Boontanon, Narin, Aung, Humm Kham Zan Zan, Jindal, Ranjna, Fujii, Shigeo, Visvanathan, Chettiyappan, Boontanon, Suwanna Kitpati
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Activated sludge process Environmental Monitoring Hydraulic retention time Microplastic fragmentation Microplastics Microplastics - analysis Plastics - analysis Removal efficiency Sewage - chemistry Thailand Waste Disposal, Fluid - methods Wastewater - chemistry Wastewater treatment plant Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis
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