I am looking for an efficient, low cost, and environmentally friendly method to extract microplastics from clay rich sediment, e.g. mud flats, mangrove forest ... .
Heat the mixture at low temperature (~500 ℃), and the microplastics will be burned. Or, use tetrahydrofuran (or other substitution) to dissolve the microplastics. Or, extract the micropalstics from the clay rich sediment by centrifuge.