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Microplastics in the Environment
Summary
This review provided a broad overview of microplastics as environmental pollutants arising from industrialization, examining their origins from larger plastic fragmentation and their behavior across multiple environmental compartments. The review contextualizes how the plastics economy has created a self-perpetuating pollution cycle in which today's consumer goods become tomorrow's pervasive contaminants in air, water, food, and human tissue.
Microplastics (MPs) have emerged as a consequence of industrialization, economic development, and improved living standards. These minuscule plastic fragments originate from the breakdown of larger plastic materials. As environmental pollutants, MPs pose significant...