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A Review of Microplastics Risk Assessment in the Coastal Environment
Summary
This review examines the risk of microplastic pollution in coastal and marine environments, covering how microplastics transfer from land to sea, enter food chains, and pose combined toxic risks to marine life and human health. Chemical degradation processes like tire abrasion are identified as major sources of microplastics in coastal ecosystems.
Pollution from microplastics has recently become a prevalent threat to the ecosystem. Microplastics with a dimension less than or equal to 5 mm are smaller. There are many ways that microplastics can reach the atmosphere. By various mechanisms, the breakdown of macro plastics will happen. Chemical degradation, tire abrasion, is the most common forms of degradation. Microplastics (MPs) pollution in the coastal and marine ecosystem is currently a global problem. Transferring MPs from land to sea and allowing them to enter the food chain has a direct negative impact on marine life and human health. The combined toxicity effects of MicroPlastics (MPs) and other contaminants in marine environments, as well as their toxicity effects and mechanisms based on a variety of environmentally important test organisms, were also covered in this study.