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Transport Process of Microplastics from Terrestrial to Aquatic Environment: Evaluation of the Current Knowledge
Summary
Researchers reviewed how microplastics travel from terrestrial sources — including agriculture, urban runoff, and atmospheric deposition — into rivers, lakes, and ultimately the ocean, synthesizing current knowledge on transport mechanisms and knowledge gaps. Understanding land-to-water transport pathways is critical for identifying where interventions can most effectively reduce the flow of plastics into aquatic ecosystems and human food sources.
Since the first plastic production at an industrial scale in the 1950s, the importance of plastics in our lives and their production have continued to increase daily. Most of the studies focused on plastic debris accumulation in the marine environment. However,...