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: Dorte Herzke, Peygham Ghaffari, Jan Henry Sundet, Caroline Aas Tranang, Claudia Halsband
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
• Subjects: microplastic fiber; plankton; benthos; FVCOM model; encounter risk; arctic fjord; envir; manag; Adventfjorden; Arctic; Longyearbyen; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.662168; https://doaj.org/article/bf6ab2dc643947f5b5a76237cd708f63

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...