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Microplastic pollution in the rivers of the Tibet Plateau☆

Changbo Jiang - No affiliation found

2019/06/01 Full-length article DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.03.022 Journal: Environmental Pollution

Abstract:

Highlights•Microplastics in rivers on Tibet Plateau were studied for the first time.•Fibers were dominated the collected microplastics.•Human activities in Tibet Plateau is an important source of microplastics.•PET and PE were the major components in collected microplastics.