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Environmental Microplastics: A Significant Pollutant of the Anthropocene
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"This review documented the omnipresence of microplastics across environmental matrices—air, water, soil, and biota—and highlighted their role as carriers for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and persistent organic pollutants. The fact that microplastics act as contaminant vectors in every environmental compartment means human exposure is multi-pathway and the combined toxicological burden is likely greater than any single pollutant measurement suggests."
The omnipresence of microplastics (MPs) across the environmental matrixes and their potential as an emerging pollutant is attracting immense attention from researchers and media. Studies have reported MPs as carriers of contaminants including, polycyclic aromatic...
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