This book highlights one of the most important water pollutants known as Microplastics. It has been reported that humans and the environment are dealing with microplastics particles in water and aquatic media. Despite the fact that such pollution might have mainly started out from the sea, it is now in lakes, rivers, ponds and even drinking water. This book presents as overview of microplastics in freshwater environments in different regions around the world. It discusses the ecotoxicological effects of microplastics, the removal/remediation techniques of microplastics and the role of water/wastewater treatment plants in spreading microplastics. This book is a valuable resource, covering wide aspects of microplastics from sources, detection and characterization to removal and their fate in treatment plants.

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Prof. Mika Sillanpää is engaged in synergistic collaboration with over 50 research partners from the world's leading laboratories in six continents and he is currently working at the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Nørrebrogade 44, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. He has received numerous awards for research and innovation. For example, he is the first Laureate of Scientific Committee on the Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)'s Young Investigator Award, which was delivered at the UNESCO Conference in Shanghai 2010 for his "significant contributions, outstanding achievements and research leadership in Environmental Technological Innovations".

Dr. Ali Khadir is an environmental engineer and a member of the Young Researcher and Elite Club, Islamic Azad University of Shahre Rey Branch, Tehran, Iran. He has published/prepared several articles and book chapters in reputed international publishers, including Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley. His articles have been published in journals with IF of greater than 4, including Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering and International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. He also has been the reviewer of journals and international conferences. His research interests center on emerging pollutants, dyes, and pharmaceuticals in aquatic media, advanced water and wastewater remediation techniques and technology. At present, he is editing other books in the field of nanocomposites, advanced materials, and the remediation of dye-containing wastewaters.

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

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Microplastics Occurrence in Different Regions Around the World

Microplastics pollution in rivers

Microplastics in freshwater environments and drinking water

The role of rivers in microplastics spread and pollution

Microplastics pollution in coastal zones

A Critical Review on Separation, Identification, Quantification and Removal of Microplastics in Environmental samples: Developments and Challenges

Pretreatment methods for further analysis of microplastics in wastewater and sludge samples

Microplastics Sampling and Recovery: Materials, Identification, Characterization Methods and Challenges

Ecotoxicity assessment of microplastics on aquatic life

Occurrence, fate and removal of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs)

Microplastic pollution in water and their removal in various wastewater treatment plants

An Overview of Physical, Chemical and Biological Methods for Removal of Microplastics

Bioremediation techniques for microplastics removal Microplastics and anaerobic digestion

ROLE OF MICROPLASTICS AS ATTACHMENT MEDIA FOR THE GROWTH OF MICROORGANISMS