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Societal Synopsis

 

Tiny Titans: Harnessing Nanoparticles for Microplastics Remediation

CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad - 201002, India

Submitted By

Akhil Pathania (10CC23J26001)

Anurag Mitra (10PP23J26001)

Devendra Kumar Devangan (10CC23J26013)

Niyati Sexana (10CC23J26048)

Rahul Kumar Singh (10CC23J26020

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Microplastics are small plastic particles less than 5 mm in size, resulting from the degradation of larger plastic debris and the shedding of synthetic fibres.

Introduction

Microplastics

Soil Contamination

Food Contamination

Water Contamination

Air contamination

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Pollution caused by the tourism also causing microplastic contamination

Some local communities are not able to detect the presence of Microplastics and hence, are getting affected by that.

Solution Needed to remove this contamination from the local water bodies

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Nanoparticles as cleansing agents

Nanoparticles, due to their high surface area-to-volume ratio and unique chemical properties

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Future Scopes

Developing Filter system incorporating the nanoparticles sieves.

Using an environmentally friendly development of new generation of low toxic Nanoparticles Sieves

Developing low-cost Filter system.