Although the study of microplastics in the aquatic environment incorporates a diversity of
research fields, it is still in its infancy in many aspects while comparable topics have been …

Freshwater river systems are commonly defined as the main transport paths of microplastics
(MP) from land into the seas. A shift in research interest from oceans to rivers can be …

Urban drainage system is an important channel for terrigenous microplastics (< 5 mm in
size) to migrate to urban water bodies, especially the input load caused by overflow pollution …

The safety of microplastics (MPs) and associated health effects has been one of the major
concerns worldwide. However, the role of photoaging toward the risk of MPs in water …

There is only sparse empirical data on the settling velocity of small, nonbuoyant
microplastics thus far, although it is an important parameter governing their vertical transport …

Measured microplastic concentrations in river surface waters fluctuate greatly. This
variability is affected by season and is codriven by factors, such as sampling methodologies …

Current riverine plastic monitoring best practices mainly consider surface observations, thus
neglecting the underlying distribution of plastics in the water column. Bias on plastic budgets …

Source-to-sink geoscientific domain and environmental plastic cycle studies are two major
scientific worlds starting to interact, taking benefit from each other. To advance in our …

Microplastics are abundant in aquatic environments and are an emerging environmental
concern. The prediction of their settling velocities is central to predictions of the residence …

The transport behavior of microplastics (MPs) in the fluvial environment is scarcely
researched. Besides settling velocities and critical shear stress for erosion, only a few …