Airborne microplastics in Bandung and Osaka: concentration and characteristics

Nur Alina Aprilia Hidayat; Kotaro Kitano; Yuto Tani; Puji Lestari; Windy Iriana; Yusuke Fujii; Hiroshi Okochi; Yasuhiro Niida

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202448506004

Airborne microplastics in Bandung and Osaka: concentration and characteristics

Nur Alina Aprilia Hidayat, Kotaro Kitano, Yuto Tani, Puji Lestari^*, Windy Iriana, Yusuke Fujii, Hiroshi Okochi, Yasuhiro Niida

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Plastic is a material that is widely used in everyday life. It can be degraded into small-sized fragments (< 5 mm) called microplastics (MPs). Research on MPs has primarily focused on the aquatic environment, while studies on airborne MPs (AMPs) are still in their early stages. In this study, AMPs at two locations (Bandung (Indonesia) and Osaka (Japan)) were characterized by attenuated total imaging and micro-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, as a preliminary study. The concentrations of AMPs in total suspended particulates (TSP) in Bandung and Osaka ranged from 1.03 to 14.27 particles/m³ and from 0.63 to 3.29 particles/m³, respectively. AMPs in both locations were fragmented, with dominant Feret diameters ranging from 1 to 20 μm.

Original language	English
Article number	06004
Journal	E3S Web of Conferences
Volume	485
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202448506004
Publication status	Published - 2024 Feb 2
Event	7th Environmental Technology and Management Conference, ETMC 2023 - Bali, Indonesia Duration: 2023 Nov 1 → 2023 Nov 3

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General Energy
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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