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A small-scale, portable method for extracting microplastics from marine sediments

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• Cheap, effective method for microplastic extraction from sediments. • High, reproducible recovery rates - 95.8%. • Comparison of three commonly used floatation media. • Zinc chloride (1.5 g cm−3) deemed an effective floatation medium. • Method applied to environmental samples across a range of sediment types

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