Microplastics Remediation – Possible Perspectives for Mitigating Saline Environments

Microplastics are widely used in products of the chemical and cosmetic industries. These tiny plastics regularly play a role as abrasives in skin-care cosmetics. Such synthetics flow into the environment and can be hazardous to living beings due to their micro-size, slow biodegradation, and environmental stability. These plastics can disperse rapidly to the oceans, seashores, and other saline environments; but their main receptors are saline water bodies and related soils. This risk should be managed and remediated to achieve a cleaner environment for the sake of sustainability. This chapter reviews and discusses possible technologies to remediate microplastics in saline environments, describing the environment assimilative capacity related to microplastics, microplastic self-aging and degradation, remediation technologies for saline environments, economic and social aspects, hopes, and resistance.