PhD candidate Muhammad Haris and Professor Nicky Eshtiaghi (left to right) with the magnetic material that they developed into adsorbents that remove microplastics and dissolved pollutants from water. A magnet attracts the material that the team used to make adsorbents that remove microplastics and dissolved pollutants from water. “Existing methods could take days to remove microplastics from water, while our cheap and sustainable invention achieves better results in just one hour,” said the lead researcher, Professor Nicky Esthtiaghi in a statement published by Australia’s RMIT University. By contrast, conventional purification techniques take days to complete, and even only capture plastic particles of few millimeters but tinier microplastics were unable to be captured before this invention. When wastewater passes through the structure, it captures the invisible plastic particles and other pollutants.

Source: The Express Tribune December 16, 2022 18:35 UTC