Microplastics in sewage sludge: Effects of treatment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 810-818

  Mahon, A M ^a   O'Connell, B ^a   Healy, M G ^b   O'Connor, I ^a   Officer, R ^a   Nash, R ^a   Morrison, L ^b  

^a Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; LIME; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SLUDGE DIGESTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CUMULATIVE LOADING; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; IRELAND; LIME STABILIZATION; MICROPLASTICS; SLUDGE SAMPLES; STORMWATERS; THERMAL DRYING; TREATMENT PROCESS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACRYLIC ACID; MICROPLASTIC; PLASTIC; POLYAMIDE; POLYESTER; POLYETHYLENE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYPROPYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BACTERIUM; BIOSOLID; LANDFILL; PLASTIC; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BIOSOLID; EXTRACTION; FRACTIONATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRELAND; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SLUDGE; SLUDGE TREATMENT; AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

IRELAND;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; IRELAND; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER;

EID: 85014556895     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b04048     Document Type: Article

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