How to detect soil microplastics?

Alwielland Q. Bello @Alwielland-Bello

05 December 2023 1 10K Report

Divine Sharon M

Drying the collected soil sample, and then sieving can be done to filter microplastic material.

Common polymer identification methods like spectroscopy can be used after that.

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