Publication Date:
2024-01-16
Description:
This data set presents microplastic (MP) mass loads including tire wear particles (TWP) in spider webs collected from bus stops in a mid-sized German city. Spider webs were used as a spatial and temporal mirror of MP contamination in urban air. The analysis was conducted with pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS). Details concerning the measurements, quantification, and calibration are found in the related study (Goßmann et al., 2022). Spider webs were greatly contaminated with TWP, clusters of polyethylene-terephthalate (C-PET) and polyvinylchloride (C-PVC). Moreover, they provide insight into spatial differences and trends of MP/TWP load in local (urban) air on a small scale. While busy, stop and go dominated roads showed higher contamination of TWP, spider webs from residential areas were more often contaminated with MP other than TWP, predominantly C-PET. In some spider webs, MP accounted for up to ten percent of the total weight of the sample.
Keywords:
2020_A-A1; 2020_A-B1; 2020_A-C1; 2020_B-A1; 2020_B-B1; 2020_B-C1; 2020_B-D1; 2020_H-A1; 2020_H-A2; 2020_H-A3; 2020_H-B2; 2020_H-B3; 2020_H-C1; 2020_H-C2; 2020_H-C3; A-A1; A-B1; A-C1; B-A1; B-B1; B-C1; B-D1; Car tire wear particles; Date/Time of event; Event label; FACTS; Fluxes and Fate of Microplastics in Northern European Waters; H-A1; H-A2; H-A3; H-B2; H-B3; H-C1; H-C2; H-C3; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Microplastics; Oldenburg, Germany; Polyethylene, cluster; Polyethylene terephthalate, cluster; Polymethylmethacrylate, cluster; Polypropylene, cluster; Polystyrene, cluster; Polyvinyl chloride, cluster; Py-GC/MS; Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; Sample type; Spatial distribution; Spider webs; Sum; temporal distribution; tire wear particles; Truck tire wear particles; urban air; Wooden tooth pick
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 150 data points
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