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Micro- and mesoplastics release from the Indonesian municipal solid waste landfill leachate to the aquatic environment: Case study in Galuga Landfill Area, Indonesia

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Highlights

  • Micro- and mesoplastics were identified in all water samples.

  • An estimated average daily release of microplastic from leachate drain at 80640 ± 604.80 particles

  • Daily mesoplastic release from leachate drain to the aquatic environment was estimated 618240 ± 1905.45 particles

  • After input from the leachate drain, the microplastic number increased threefold and nine times higher for mesoplastics

  • Polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene was the most abundant microplastics found

Abstract

Small-sized plastic debris (micro- and mesoplastics) are emerging pollutants and widely detected in aquatic environments. However, micro- and mesoplastics pollution research with regard to landfills is limited. In this study, the occurrence, characteristics, and possible release of micro- and mesoplastic waste from the Galuga landfill leachate to the aquatic environment were studied. Micro- and mesoplastics were identified in all surface water samples from leachate influent and effluent of Galuga landfills. The average daily release to the aquatic environment was estimated at 80,640 ± 604.80 microplastic and 618,240 ± 1905.45 mesoplastic particles, respectively. The amount of microplastic increased three-fold and nine-fold for mesoplastics after input from the leachate drain. Micro- and mesoplastic main chemical compositions were polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyethylene terephthalate, polyester, and cellophane. This study implied that the leachate may cause micro and mesoplastic contamination to the aquatic environment. The results raised the knowledge of small-sized plastic debris in aquatic environments.

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CRediT authorship contribution statement

Nurhasanah: Writing – review & editing, Investigation, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration. Muhammad Reza Cordova: Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization, Resources, Investigation, Methodology, Formal analysis, Visualization, Data curation, Supervision. Etty Riani: Investigation, Visualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Galuga waste pickers who have voluntary supported this study. Cordova's special thanks are dedicated to Benny Setiyadi for discussion and providing several publications related to this research. We thank anonymous reviewers for critically reviewing the manuscript and recommending substantial improvements. We thank the Baseline editor (Dr. Bruce J. Richardson) for providing helpful comments on the manuscript and edit the English quality before publication. This research is

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