Polymer Characterization of Submerged Plastic Litter from Lake Tahoe, United States.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring plastic litter in the environment is critical to understanding the amount, sources, transport, fate, and environmental impact of this pollutant. However, few studies have monitored plastic litter on lakebeds which are potentially important environments for determining the fate and transport of plastic litter in freshwater basins. In this study, a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus was used for litter collection at the lakebed along five transects in Lake Tahoe, United States. Litter was brought to the surface and characterized by litter type. Plastic litter was subsampled, and polymer composition was determined using attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The average plastic litter from the lakebed for the five dive transects was 83 ± 49

SUBMITTER: Davidson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10604391 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature