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Project

Investigation of microplastic contamination using Oikawa as a marker in the middle reaches of the Tama River

General
Research
No.248
Principal
Investigator
Noriyuki ITOH
Affiliation Non-Profit Organization R.I.La,Director
Research
Summary

A survey conducted in 2019 confirmed that the pollution situation in the middle stream of the Tamagawa River, which conducted thesurvey as a result, was very serious. Microplastics were detected from more than 95% of oikawa captured as a specimen.

And all of the detected microplastics are primary microplastics, 95% of those of fibrous mobile, 5% were microbeads. As revealed from the microplastic images detected, many are presumed to be primary microplastics discharged from the water reprocessing center.


Collaborators

Manami UCHINO
Yoshihiro TOKONABE
Etuko ECHIZEN
Hiroyuki HASEKAWA
Mituaki YAMASAKI

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