Evidence for Microplastics Contamination of the Remote Tributary of the Yenisei River, Siberia—The Pilot Study Results

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Yulia A. Frank, Danil S. Vorobiev, Olga A. Kayler, Egor D. Vorobiev, Ksenia S. Kulinicheva, Anton A. Trifonov, Tina Soliman Hunter
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: microplastics abundance; microfibers; Siberian rivers; surface water; bottom sediments; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yenisei River; Tunguska; Nizhnyaya Tunguska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/w13223248

This study is a pioneering attempt to count microplastics (MPs) in the Yenisei River system to clarify the role of Siberian Rivers in the transport of MPs to the Arctic Ocean. The average MPs content in the surface water of the Yenisei large tributary, the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River, varied from 1.20...