PMID- 35331773
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220526
LR  - 20220526
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 830
DP  - 2022 Jul 15
TI  - Effect of land use on microplastic pollution in a major boundary waterway: The 
      Arvand River.
PG  - 154728
LID - S0048-9697(22)01821-6 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154728 [doi]
AB  - The occurrence of microplastics (MPs) was investigated in the Arvand River 
      (Iran). The Arvand River (200 Km) is a major water body that flows through land 
      with diverse use and it meets the Persian Gulf. This study constitutes the first 
      assessment of MP pollution (prevalence and physico-chemical characteristics) in 
      the Arvand river, both in the sediment and in the water. MP monitoring has been 
      carried out in 24 stations located along the river. The MP pollution found ranged 
      between 1 and 291 items.L(-1) and 70 to 15,620 items.kg(-1) (dw), in water and 
      sediment, respectively. The majority of MPs were fibres, black/grey and 
      yellow/orange in colour, and mainly 250-500 mum and >1000 mum in size. Polyethylene 
      terephthalate (PET), polypropylene (PP), nylon (NYL), high-density polyethylene 
      (HDPE), and polystyrene (PS) were found in sediment samples. All these polymers, 
      except HDPE, were also identified in the water samples. PET and PP were dominant 
      in the water samples; whereas PET and PS were the most abundant in the sediments. 
      The vicinity of urban wastewater effluents could be behind MP pollution in both 
      water and sediments. Significant differences (p < 0.05) of MP concentrations were 
      affected by different land uses when comparing MP levels in undisturbed natural 
      area with urban areas. A strong correlation between MP fibres and fragments found 
      with PCA biplots revealed their similar distribution in water. In the sediment 
      samples, fibre and fragment MP particles were significantly correlated with 
      colloidal particles (e.g., clay and organic matter) suggesting a relevant role of 
      colloidal particles in the aquatic ecosystem of the Arvand River in transporting 
      MPs. This study contributes to the better understanding of the presence of MP in 
      major rivers, which are systems that have been scarcely investigated for this 
      type of pollution, and it can inform interventions to reduce MP inputs to the 
      river and sea.
CI  - Crown Copyright (c) 2022. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Soltani, Naghmeh
AU  - Soltani N
AD  - Department of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Shiraz University, 71454 
      Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: Naghmeh.soltani@shirazu.ac.ir.
FAU - Keshavarzi, Behnam
AU  - Keshavarzi B
AD  - Department of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Shiraz University, 71454 
      Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: BKeshavarzi@shirazu.ac.ir.
FAU - Moore, Farid
AU  - Moore F
AD  - Department of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Shiraz University, 71454 
      Shiraz, Iran.
FAU - Busquets, Rosa
AU  - Busquets R
AD  - School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University, Kingston 
      Upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE, UK.
FAU - Nematollahi, Mohammad Javad
AU  - Nematollahi MJ
AD  - Department of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Shiraz University, 71454 
      Shiraz, Iran.
FAU - Javid, Reza
AU  - Javid R
AD  - Khorramshahr Environmental Protection Office, Khorramshahr 6491846783, Iran; 
      Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science and Oceanography, 
      Khorramshahr University of Marine Science and Technology, Khorramshahr, Iran.
FAU - Gobert, Sylvie
AU  - Gobert S
AD  - STAtion de REcherche Sous-Marineset Oceanographiques (STARESO), 20260 Calvi, 
      France; Universite de Liege, Centre MARE, Laboratoire d'Oceanologie, Sart-Tilman, 
      B6c, 4000 Liege, Belgium.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220322
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Microplastics)
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Polypropylenes)
RN  - 0 (Polystyrenes)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 059QF0KO0R (Water)
RN  - 9002-88-4 (Polyethylene)
SB  - IM
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - *Microplastics
MH  - Plastics
MH  - Polyethylene/analysis
MH  - Polypropylenes/analysis
MH  - Polystyrenes
MH  - Rivers
MH  - Water
MH  - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Land use
OT  - Microfibre
OT  - River
OT  - Sediment
OT  - Surface water
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2022/03/26 06:00
MHDA- 2022/05/27 06:00
CRDT- 2022/03/25 05:34
PHST- 2021/12/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/02/25 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/03/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/03/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/05/27 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/03/25 05:34 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(22)01821-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154728 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2022 Jul 15;830:154728. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154728. 
      Epub 2022 Mar 22.