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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 11, Pages 5774-5780Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b00816
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- New South Wales (NSW) Government, Office of Environment and Heritage, Environmental Forensic section
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A method based on pressurized fluid extraction (PEE) was developed for measuring microplastics in environmental samples. This method can address some limitations of the current microplastic methods and provide laboratories with a simple analytical method for quantifying common micro plastics in a range of environmental samples. The method was initially developed by recovering 101% to 111% of spiked plastics on glass beads and was then applied to a composted municipal waste sample with spike recoveries ranging from 85% to 94%. The results from municipal waste samples and soil samples collected from an industrial area demonstrated that the method is a promising alternative for determining the concentration and identity of microplastics in environmental samples.
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