Analysis of the literature shows a remarkably consistent relationship between size and abundance of microplastics across different environmental matrices

Leusch, Frederic DL.; Lu, Hsuan-Cheng; Perera, Kushani; Neale, Peta A.; Ziajahromi, Shima

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120984

Analysis of the literature shows a remarkably consistent relationship between size and abundance of microplastics across different environmental matrices

Microplastics come in a variety of shapes, polymer types and sizes. Due to the lack of a harmonised approach to analyse and quantify microplastics, there are huge disparities in size detection limits and size classifications used in the literature. This has caused large variations in reported mic…