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Microplastics: Transfer Pathways, Radiotracing and Challenges for Coastal Environments
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This review maps how wastewater, industrial discharge, and plastic degradation funnel microplastics into rivers, estuaries, and coastal lagoons, and explores how radiotracing techniques can follow these particles through the environment. Coastal semi-enclosed systems are especially vulnerable accumulation points, making them critical targets for both monitoring and pollution control efforts.
Wastewater, industry, runoff, and degraded plastics pathways spread microplastics into waterways, and coastal areas. Lagoons, estuaries, and river systems, as semi-enclosed and ecologically sensitive environments, thus become prime reservoirs for their accumulation,...
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