Preliminary Data on the Polymer Type Identification from Estuarine Environmental Samples

Microplastics (MPs) are widely recognized as a contaminant of emerging concern in the marine environment. This is a work in progress as part of a project aiming for the quality assessment of the aquatic environment for aquaculture activity in Portugal, coastal oceanic areas and 4 estuarine regions: ria de Aveiro, Mondego, ria Formosa and Mira. In this context, we report the first results in surface waters in one of the estuarine study areas (Mondego, Portugal).