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Microplastic Pollution in India: An Overview

Earth and environmental sciences library 2025
Sangita Yadav, Gaurav Sharma, Pradeep Khyalia, Shiksha Malik

Summary

This overview characterized microplastic contamination across India's marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments, documenting polymer types, concentration ranges, and geographic hotspots tied to urbanization, industry, and poor waste management infrastructure. India's scale as a plastic producer and its rapidly growing coastal and inland population make understanding domestic contamination patterns urgent for protecting both ecosystems and public health.

Microplastics (MPs) are a major environmental problem in the world’s oceans, and their presence in the Indian continent as a well-known emerging contaminant has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. The chapter provides a detailed overview of...

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