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Obstacles to Controlling and Managing Microplastics in the Environment
Summary
This review identifies the major obstacles to controlling and managing microplastics in environmental settings, including the difficulty of measuring MPs across size ranges, the challenge of removing small particles from water and soil, and the regulatory gaps that allow continued plastic pollution.
The degradation and decomposition of plastic waste can happen due to its exposure to an open environment having an ecological state. The process leads the plastics into smaller fragments called microplastics (MPs) in sizes less than 5 mm. The significant accumulation of plastic waste, coupled with the increasing population, has led to rising MPs in the environment (water, air, soil), so plastic pollution occurs.
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