Do wastewater treatment plants act as a potential point source of microplastics? Preliminary study in the coastal Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1495-1504

  Talvitie, Julia ^a   Heinonen, Mari ^b   Pääkkönen, Jari Pekka ^c   Vahtera, Emil ^c   Mikola, Anna ^a   Setälä, Outi ^d   Vahala, Riku ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority   (Finland)

^c City of Helsinki   (Finland)

^d FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Activated sludge process; Microplastics; Municipal wastewater treatment; Tertiary biological filtration; Textile fibres

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOFILTRATION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; FIBERS; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SURFACE WATERS; TEXTILE FIBERS; TEXTILES; TOXICITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL FILTRATION; FIBRE CONCENTRATIONS; MICROPLASTICS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; RECEIVING WATER BODIES; TREATMENT PROCESS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

MICROPLASTIC; PLASTIC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARCHIPELAGO; BIOFILTRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PLASTIC WASTE; POINT SOURCE; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEDIMENTATION; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; COASTAL WATERS; EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; FINLAND; SEA; SEDIMENTATION; TEXTILE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF FINLAND;

FILTRATION; FINLAND; PLASTICS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84954528619     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2015.360     Document Type: Article

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