First report of plastic biomedia contamination in Brazilian beaches - evidence from the Paraná coast
Renata Hanae Nagai,
Yan Weber Mesquita,
Aislyn Alvarenga
et al.
Abstract:Plastic biomedia, also known as filter media, are small, perforated plastic pieces (polyethylene [PE] or high-density polyethylene [HDPE]) used as bacterial biofilm carriers to improve the wastewater treatment process, invented in Norway in the 1980s (Ødegarrd et al., 1994;Ballerini et al., 2022). These plastic particles, also called biocarriers, are applied in the Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) technology, the most used technique in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) worldwide (Madan et al., 2022). This i… Show more
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