| Title: |
Microplastics Guidance
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| Resource Type: |
document --> guidance / decision support
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| Country: |
USA
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| Language(s): |
English
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| Year: |
2022 |
| Author 1/Producer: |
ITRC
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| Report/Document number/description: |
Microplastics Guidance
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| Publisher Country:
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USA |
| Publisher web link (root): |
https://mp-1.itrcweb.org/
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| Report / download web link (=direct link): |
https://mp-1.itrcweb.org/
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Contaminants-->Others
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Receptor: Ecological
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Receptor: Human health
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Risk assessment overview
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| Short description: |
Microplastics (MP) are ubiquitous in our environment and pose one of the biggest emerging threats to the global environmental community. The science surrounding MP, their potential health effects, and knowledge of their fate and transport is very new and ongoing, with research articles being published at a rapidly accelerating rate. Even techniques and best practices for sample collection and analysis of these tiny particles and fibers are still very much evolving.
ITRC's Microplastics Team has synthesized the available information on MP into a single comprehensive guidance document, covering everything from ecological effects and mitigation and abatement strategies to environmental distribution!
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 26/02/2023
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