Microplastics: Rhine one of the most polluted rivers worldwide

Between Basel and Rotterdam, the Rhine has one of the highest microplastics pollution so far measured in rivers, with the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area showing peak numbers of up to four times the average. Among investigated rivers, the Rhine is thus among those most heavily polluted with microplastics, report researchers who evaluated, for the first time, the plastic concentration at the surface of one of the big European rivers.

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