TY - CHAP
T1 - The Presence and Impacts of Microplastics in Drinking Water: Their Occurrence, Detection, Removal, and Implications
AU - Liddell, Alice
AU - Geron, Marco
AU - Cunningham, Eoin
AU - Smyth, Beatrice
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - This chapter discusses the issues of plastic, primarily microplastic pollution in freshwater and drinking water, with a focus on developing nations. Microplastics, generally defined as plastic particles with a size less than 5 mm, are beginning to gain attention as an emerging contaminant of concern. Whilst testing has recently begun on the contamination of freshwater and treated drinking water by microplastics in a number of developed regions, literature regarding microplastic pollution in the water of less economically developed countries is lacking. Microplastics pose a threat to human health, and therefore, it is important that cost-effective methods for the testing, detection, and removal of these plastic items from drinking water globally is considered with a higher level of urgency. It is argued that by achieving the aims laid out by the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goals 6 and 12, the threats from microplastic pollution will subside.
AB - This chapter discusses the issues of plastic, primarily microplastic pollution in freshwater and drinking water, with a focus on developing nations. Microplastics, generally defined as plastic particles with a size less than 5 mm, are beginning to gain attention as an emerging contaminant of concern. Whilst testing has recently begun on the contamination of freshwater and treated drinking water by microplastics in a number of developed regions, literature regarding microplastic pollution in the water of less economically developed countries is lacking. Microplastics pose a threat to human health, and therefore, it is important that cost-effective methods for the testing, detection, and removal of these plastic items from drinking water globally is considered with a higher level of urgency. It is argued that by achieving the aims laid out by the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goals 6 and 12, the threats from microplastic pollution will subside.
UR - https://www.igi-global.com/book/modern-challenges-approaches-humanitarian-engineering/276461
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-7998-9190-1
DO - 10.4018/978-1-7998-9190-1
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781799891901
SP - 58
EP - 76
BT - Modern Challenges and Approaches to Humanitarian Engineering
PB - IGI Global
ER -