ArticleEnvironmental science. Processes & impacts2025
Emerging investigator series: open dumping and burning: an overlooked source of terrestrial microplastics in underserved communities.
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- Distinct properties of plastic-derived submicrometer particles from smoldering burning.Science advances · 2026Article
- Thermal oxidation, ultraviolet radiation, and mechanical abrasion - understanding mechanisms of microplastic generation and chemical transformation.Microplastics and nanoplastics · 2026Article
- Enhanced Identification of Weathered Plastics Through the Improvement of Infrared Spectral Libraries.Environmental engineering science · 2025Article
- Adaptable microplastic classification using similarity learning on µFTIR spectra collected from µFTIR focal plane array imaging.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal assessment of microplastic incidence in the Atoyac basin - a key watershed in Mexico.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2025Article
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Abstract
Open dumping and burning of solid waste are widely practiced in underserved communities lacking access to solid waste management facilities; however, the generation of microplastics from these sites has been overlooked. We report elevated concentrations of microplastics (MPs) in soil of three solid waste open dump and burn sites: a single-family site in Tuttle, Oklahoma, USA, and two community-wide sites in Crow Agency and Lodge Grass, Montana, USA. We extracted, quantified, and characterized MPs from two soil depths (0-9 cm and 9-18 cm). The average of abundance of particles found at community-wide sites three sites (18, 460 particles kg
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