Microplastic Fiber Emissions From Wastewater Effluents: Abundance, Transport Behavior and Exposure Risk for Biota in an Arctic Fjord

• Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Science
• Main Authors: Herzke, Dorte, Ghaffari, Peygham, Sundet, Jan Henry, Tranang, Caroline Aas, Halsband, Claudia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2021
• Subjects: Adventfjorden; Longyearbyen; Svalbard
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.662168; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2021.662168/full

Microfibers (MF) are one of the major classes of microplastic found in the marine environment on a global scale. Very little is known about how they move and distribute from point sources such as wastewater effluents into the ocean. We chose Adventfjorden near the settlement of Longyearbyen on the A...