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The impact of rainfall events on the abundance of microplastics in urban streams

IWRA 2023 Online Conference - Emerging Pollutants: Protecting Water Quality for the Health of People and the Environment
Theme 5: PRIORITY emerging pollutants in the hydrocycle: microplastics, nanomaterial, PFAs and PPCPs
Author(s): MSc Inês Amorim Leitão, Wageningen University&Research / CERNAS

MSc Inês Amorim Leitão, Wageningen University&Research / CERNAS


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Abstract

The rainfall episodes increase the microplastic abundance in streams, especially in more urbanized places.

The results suggest that the μP abundance in streams are not associated only with the level of μP in the rainfall water or the rainfall intensity.

Run-off and the consequent dragged particles may be a strong influence on the μP abundance in streams.