Microplastic Pollution in the Changing Climate

Victor E. Ojukwu; Florence Chidinma Akaeme; Joshua O. Ighalo

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-64253-1_12

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Microplastic Pollution in the Changing Climate

Emerging contaminants and associated treatment technologies 2024 2 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.

Victor E. Ojukwu, Florence Chidinma Akaeme, Joshua O. Ighalo

Summary

This review examined how climate change is altering microplastic transport, distribution, and persistence — with warming oceans, intensified storms, glacial melt, and shifting wind patterns redistributing particles into previously uncontaminated remote regions. Climate change and microplastic pollution are not independent crises; their interaction means that as warming accelerates, plastic particles will penetrate deeper into food webs and human communities that currently have minimal exposure.

The rate of microplastic build-up in our environment is a major concern to all stakeholders in the pursuit of environmental sustainability. Microplastic can adsorb and harbour other pollutants from the environment making them more harmful to aquatic life when...

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