Specific Location | Map locations | Country | MP size range | MP concentration (particles kg−1 d.w.b and w.wc) | References | |
(7 WWTPs,) | 35 | Ireland | 250 µm - 4 mm | 4196 - 15,385a | Mahon et al., 2017 [113] | |
(7 WWTPs,) | 11 | Netherlands | 0.7 µm - 5 mm | 370 - 950b | Leslie et al., [33] | |
Lysekil | 2 | Sweden | 300 µm - 5 mm | 16.7a × 104 | Magnusson and Norén, 2014 [112] | |
Ithaca, New York | 36 | USA | No Data | About 1000 - 4000a | Zubris and Ricahrd, 2017 [19] | |
Los Angeles County | 14 | USA | <5 mm | 5000 | Carr et al., 2016 [111] | |
(28 WWTPs,) | 37 | China | 37 µm - 5 mm | 1565 - 56,386b | Li et al., 2018 [176] | |
Oldenburg | 9 | Germany | <5 mm | 1000 to 24,000b | Mintening et al., 2014, 2017 [116] [117] | |
Seelze | 38 | Germany | 20 to 100 µm | 495,000b | Sujathan et al., 2017 [170] | |
Glasgow | 5 | UK | 1.34 - 1.62 mm | About 2000c | Murphy et al., 2016 [117] | |
Mikkeli | 1 | Finland | <1 mm | 8.2-301.4c | Lares et al., 2018 [143] | |
Vancouver | 24 | Canada | 64 µm | 4400c | Gies et al., 2018 [149] | |
(10 WWTPs) | 39 | Norway | 54 µm to 5 mm | 6 077b | Lusher et al., 2018 [169] | |
Jiangsu | 40 | China | 25 to >500 μm | 1.6 and 0.7c | Lv et al., 2019 [156] | |
Wuhan | 41 | China | 100 to 800 μm | 24,030b | Liu et al., 2019 [157] | |
Beijing | 26 | China | 681.46 μm | 95.16a | Yang et al., 2019 [151] | |
Italy | 42 | Italy | 0.5 - 0.1 mm | 113,000b | Magni et al., 2019 [160] |