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Study on the microplastics release from fishing nets

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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.

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  1. Institute for Macromolecular Studies, National Research Council, 13900, Biella, Italy

    Alessio Montarsolo, Raffaella Mossotti, Alessia Patrucco, Rosalinda Caringella, Marina Zoccola, Pier Davide Pozzo & Claudio Tonin

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Montarsolo, A., Mossotti, R., Patrucco, A. et al. Study on the microplastics release from fishing nets. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 133, 494 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2018-12415-1

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