Microplastic Pollution from Textiles
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 336
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microplastics; seawater; marine organisms; biota; sediments; textiles
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Interests: microplastics in seawater; marine organisms; biota; sediments; textiles
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microfibers pollution from textiles is a serious and increasing concern. Microplastics originating from textiles, both natural or synthetics, typically have a fibre shape, and are often referred to as microfibers. It is estimated that synthetic textiles are responsible for a global discharge of between 0.2 and 0.5 million tonnes of microplastics into the oceans each year.
This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the field of pollution from textiles. This Special Issue aimed at providing selected contributions on advances in the evaluation, characterization, and impact of textiles pollution in the seawater environment.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Pollution from textile industries
- Pollution from domestic washing machines
- Pollution from industrial washing machines,
- Role of synthetic clothing in microfibre pollution
- Future perspectives for textiles and the pollution impact
- Focus on natural fibre pollution
- Role of industrial textiles dyes in the seawater pollution
Dr. Monique Mancuso
Dr. Teresa Bottari
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microplastics
- microfibres
- pollution
- marine environment
- washing machines
- impact
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