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Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1123-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1123-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
Research article
 | 
13 Jun 2025
Research article |  | 13 Jun 2025

Estimating microplastic emissions from offshore wind turbine blades in the Dutch North Sea

Marco Caboni, Anna Elisa Schwarz, Henk Slot, and Harald van der Mijle Meijer

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In this study, we assessed the total quantity of microplastics emitted by wind turbines currently operating in the Dutch North Sea. The estimates of microplastics currently emitted from offshore wind turbines in the Netherlands account for a very small portion of the total microplastics released offshore in the Netherlands, specifically less than 1 ‰.
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