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E3S Web of Conf.
Volume 485, 2024
The 7th Environmental Technology and Management Conference (ETMC 2023)
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| Article Number | 06004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 12 | |
| Section | Air Quality Monitoring and Modelling, Emission Inventory, and Control | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202448506004 | |
| Published online | 02 February 2024 | |
Airborne microplastics in Bandung and Osaka: Concentration and characteristics
1 Departement of Environmental Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung 40132, Indonesia.
2 Graduate School of Sustainable System Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka 599-8531, Japan.
3 School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-0072, Japan.
4 PerkinElmer Japan G.K., Kanagawa 240-0005, Japan.
* Corresponding author: pujilest@indo.net.id
Plastic is a material that is widely used in everyday life. It can be degraded into small-sized fragments (< 5 mm) called microplastics (MPs). Research on MPs has primarily focused on the aquatic environment, while studies on airborne MPs (AMPs) are still in their early stages. In this study, AMPs at two locations (Bandung (Indonesia) and Osaka (Japan)) were characterized by attenuated total imaging and micro-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, as a preliminary study. The concentrations of AMPs in total suspended particulates (TSP) in Bandung and Osaka ranged from 1.03 to 14.27 particles/m3 and from 0.63 to 3.29 particles/m3, respectively. AMPs in both locations were fragmented, with dominant Feret diameters ranging from 1 to 20 μm.
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