The distribution, behavior, and release of macro- and micro-size plastic wastes in solid waste disposal sites

• Main Authors: Fei, Xunchang, He, Hongping, Pi, Xiaoqing, Lu, Xuhong, Chen, Qinqin, Ma, Jun, Wang, Yao, Fang, Mingliang, Wu, Chuangzhou, Feng, Shijin
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Plastic Waste; Microplastics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/162137
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Sanitary landfills and uncontrolled dumpsites are plastic wastes (PWs) reservoirs containing ∼60% of all the plastics ever made, amounting to 5,000 × 106 tons as of 2017. The distribution, long-term behavior, and release of macro- and microplastics (MPs) from disposal sites are critical to global pl...