Deborah Bassotto

Utrecht University | UU

Microfibers (MFs) are ubiquitous in natural environments and are considered as an an-thropogenic litter that has become a global concern. Approximately 2 million tons of MFs are released into the ocean every year and once in the marine environment, it can be hypothesized that their accumulation and transport are largely controlled by oceanographic...

Most marine plastic pollution originates on land. However, once plastic is at sea, it is difficult to determine its origin. Here we present a Bayesian inference framework to compute the probability that a piece of plastic found at sea came from a particular source. This framework combines information about plastic emitted by rivers with a Lagrangia...

Microfibers (MFs) are ubiquitous in natural environments and are considered as an anthropogenic litter that has become a global concern. Approximately 2 million tons of MFs are released into the ocean every year and once in the marine environment, it can be hypothesized that their accumulation and transport are largely controlled by oceanographic p...

Textile microfibres are emerging pollutants with widespread distribution in natural environments [1, 2]. They are mostly discharged into wastewater from domestic washings [3] and arrive into the environment through wastewater effluents, aerial dry or wet deposition, or through the application of contaminated sludge on agricultural soils [4]. Microf...

We report the results of a microfiber pollution survey performed in Mediterranean waters in 2017. Microfibers were found in all surface water samples collected with a mean concentration of 5.1 ± 2.3 fibers/liter. According to FTIR analysis (n=336), most of these fibers were made of non-synthetic materials such as cotton, cellulose and wool. Only 6....