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Microplastic fibre releases from industrial wastewater effluent: a textile wet-processing mill in China

Carmen K. M. Chan A , Curie Park B , King Ming Chan C , Daniel C. W. Mak C D , James K. H. Fang D and Denise M. Mitrano https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-6066 E F
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A Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QA, UK.

B Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.

C School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.

D Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

E Department of Environmental Systems Science, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich 8092, Switzerland.

F Corresponding author. Email: denise.mitrano@usys.ethz.ch

Environmental Chemistry 18(3) 93-100 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN20143
Submitted: 26 September 2020  Accepted: 15 December 2020   Published: 14 January 2021



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