Environmental Microfibre Monitoring in Aquatic Systems
topic
Aquatic microfibre monitoring collects water column and sediment samples from rivers, lakes, and coastal zones using trawl nets, manta trawls, and sediment grab samplers, processing samples through density separation and hydrogen peroxide digestion to remove organic matter before FTIR mapping of filtered residues to quantify textile microfibre concentrations in environmental matrices.
Role
Provides field validation of laboratory shedding test predictions by measuring actual environmental concentrations of textile-derived microfibres in receiving water bodies, enabling source apportionment calculations that quantify the relative contribution of laundering emissions to total aquatic microplastic burdens across different watershed catchments.