MICROPLASTIC AND FRESHWATER: ABUNDANT POLYMERS
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https://doi.org/10.36026/rpgeo.v9i2.7189Abstract
Aiming to identify the most abundant polymers in the composition of microplastics found in freshwater environments, a systematic review of the literature was undertaken. The tracking of publications occurred in the Web of Science, Scopus and ScienceDirect databases. Because they are aligned with the proposed objective, 39 articles were elected for analysis, all international. The results identify the most abundant polymers and that the microplastics found in fresh water are mostly fibers. It was possible to conclude that there are no methods of collection and separation of consolidated microplastics yet, making complex the comparison between studies, that there is a concentration of research in the Asian and European regions and that the available technologies have limitations that prevent the identification reliably of debris with dimensions smaller than 1 μm.
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