https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2018-12415-1
Regular Article
Study on the microplastics release from fishing nets
Institute for Macromolecular Studies, National Research Council, 13900, Biella, Italy
* e-mail: r.mossotti@bi.ismac.cnr.it
Received:
30
April
2018
Accepted:
13
October
2018
Published online:
30
November
2018
In this work five samples of fishing nets abandoned in the Venetian Lagoon were analysed to characterize them by the chemical and morphological point of view. Then, two of these nets were selected because constituted by textile filament yarns to simulate in laboratory a further consumption due to marine environment and the possible release of microplastics fragments. The nets were washed merging different textile standard methods for quality control. Then the washing effluents were collected and filtered on filters of defined microporosity. The filters were analysed with SEM and a statistical counting was performed.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, 2018
