Tötzke, C.; Oswald, S.E.; Hilger, A.; Kardjilov, N.: Non-invasive detection and localization of microplastic particles in a sandy sediment by complementary neutron and X-ray tomography. Journal of Soils and Sediments 21 (2021), p. 1476–1487
10.1007/s11368-021-02882-6
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Abstract:
Microplastics have become a ubiquitous pollutant in marine, terrestrial and freshwater systems that seriously affects aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Common methods for analysing microplastic abundance in soil or sediments are based on destructive sampling or involve destructive sample processing. Thus, substantial information about local distribution of microplastics is inevitably lost.