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Microplastic Pollution in Marine Ecosystem and Its Remediation
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Researchers reviewed the sources, distribution, and remediation strategies for microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems, tracing the escalating environmental burden from decades of unchecked plastic production. Marine microplastics are ingested by a wide range of species across trophic levels, creating bioaccumulation pathways that ultimately deliver plastic particles and their associated chemical contaminants to seafood consumed by humans.
Since the initiation of the plastic industrial manufacturing, its production rate has been continuously increasing and attaining high records. However, along with the increase in its production, generation of the huge plastic waste also begins. Plastic polymers are...
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