Plastics - Environmental aspects - State of knowledge and methodologies (ISO/TR 21960:2020)

This document summarizes current scientific literature on the occurrence of macroplastics and microplastics, in the environment and biota. It gives an overview of testing methods, including sampling from various environmental matrix, sample preparation and analysis. Further, chemical and physical testing methods for the identification and quantification of plastics are described.
This document gives recommendations for three steps necessary for the standardization of methods towards harmonized procedures for sampling, sample preparation and analysis.
This document does not apply indoor and health related aspects.
NOTE    The collection of plastics or microplastics in the environment by citizen social monitoring projects is not in the scope of this document. Although such projects can help sensitize the society to environmental problems and can even reduce the entry and presence of plastics in the environment, this monitoring concept is not considered suitable for a robustly representative and scientific analysis of microplastics in the environment via standardization.

Kunststoffe in der Umwelt - Aktueller Wissensstand und Methodik (ISO/TR 21960:2020)

Plastiques - Aspects liés à l'environnement - État des connaissances et méthodologies (ISO/TR 21960:2020)

Polimerni materiali - Okoljski vidiki - Stanje znanja in metodologije (ISO/TR 21960:2020)

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Publication Date
03-Mar-2020
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04-Mar-2020
Completion Date
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST-TP CEN ISO/TR 21960:2020
01-maj-2020
Polimerni materiali - Okoljski vidiki - Stanje znanja in metodologije (ISO/TR
21960:2020)
Plastics - Environmental aspects - State of knowledge and methodologies (ISO/TR
21960:2020)
Kunststoffe in der Umwelt - Aktueller Wissensstand und Methodik (ISO/TR 21960:2020)
Plastiques - Aspects liés à l'environnement - État des connaissances et méthodologies
(ISO/TR 21960:2020)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN ISO/TR 21960:2020
ICS:
13.020.01 Okolje in varstvo okolja na Environment and
splošno environmental protection in
general
83.080.01 Polimerni materiali na Plastics in general
splošno
SIST-TP CEN ISO/TR 21960:2020 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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CEN ISO/TR 21960
TECHNICAL REPORT

RAPPORT TECHNIQUE

March 2020
TECHNISCHER BERICHT
ICS 13.020.01; 83.080.01
English Version

Plastics - Environmental aspects - State of knowledge and
methodologies (ISO/TR 21960:2020)
Plastiques - Aspects liés à l'environnement - État des Kunststoffe in der Umwelt - Aktueller Wissensstand
connaissances et méthodologies (ISO/TR 21960:2020) und Methodik (ISO/TR 21960:2020)


This Technical Report was approved by CEN on 15 February 2020. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC
249.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
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United Kingdom.





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© 2020 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved Ref. No. CEN ISO/TR 21960:2020 E
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This document (CEN ISO/TR 21960:2020) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 61
"Plastics" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 249 “Plastics” the secretariat of which is
held by NBN.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Endorsement notice
The text of ISO/TR 21960:2020 has been approved by CEN as CEN ISO/TR 21960:2020 without any
modification.


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TECHNICAL ISO/TR
REPORT 21960
First edition
2020-02
Plastics — Environmental aspects —
State of knowledge and methodologies
Reference number
ISO/TR 21960:2020(E)
©
ISO 2020

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Introduction .
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
kSIST-TP FprCEN ISO/TR 21960:2020
01-januar-2020
Plastika v okolju - Trenutno stanje znanja in metodologije (ISO PRF/TR
21960:2019)
Plastics in the Environment - Current state of knowledge and methodologies (ISO
PRF/TR 21960:2019)
Kunststoffe in der Umwelt - Aktueller Wissensstand und Methodik (ISO PRF/TR
21960:2019)
Plastiques - Recommandations pour l'élaboration de normes pour l'étude des matières
plastiques dans l'environnement et le biota (ISO PRF/TR 21960:2019)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: FprCEN ISO/TR 21960
ICS:
13.020.01 Okolje in varstvo okolja na Environment and
splošno environmental protection in
general
83.080.01 Polimerni materiali na Plastics in general
splošno
kSIST-TP FprCEN ISO/TR 21960:2020 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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TECHNICAL ISO/TR
REPORT 21960
First edition
Plastics — Environmental aspects —
State of knowledge and methodologies
PROOF/ÉPREUVE
Reference number
ISO/TR 21960:2019(E)
©
ISO 2019

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COPYRIGHT PROTECTED DOCUMENT
© ISO 2019
All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, or required in the context of its implementation, no part of this publication may
be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting
on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address
below or ISO’s member body in the country of the requester.
ISO copyright office
CP 401 • Ch. de Blandonnet 8
CH-1214 Vernier, Geneva
Phone: +41 22 749 01 11
Fax: +41 22 749 09 47
Email: copyright@iso.org
Website: www.iso.org
Published in Switzerland
ii PROOF/ÉPREUVE © ISO 2019 – All rights reserved

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Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 End-use applications of plastic materials and its relevance to the environment .4
4.1 General . 4
4.2 Packaging . 8
4.3 Building and construction . 9
4.4 Mobility and transportation, electrical and electronics . 9
4.5 Agriculture . 9
5 Occurrence of plastics in environmental matrix and biota .10
5.1 General .10
5.2 Water systems .
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