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Microplastics Pollution in the Environment: Challenges and Future Prospectives: A Mini-Review
Summary
This mini-review summarized the current state of microplastic pollution in the environment, identifying key challenges including ubiquitous distribution, diverse sources, and inadequate removal technologies, while outlining future research and regulatory directions needed to address this global concern.
Microplastics Pollution in the Environment: Challenges and Future Prospectives: A Mini-Review Heba Elbasiouny, Fathy Elbehiry, Amina Zedan, and Hassan El-Ramady 18 - 10 - 2021 Plastic pollution becomes an emerging global concern because of the increasing usage and rapid distribution in the environment. Plastics defragment into small particles, of which the particles that are smaller than 5 mm is defined as microplastics. Microplastic in found even in the water bottles and different ecosystems. It reaches to the environment from many sources because of human activities. It has many negative impacts on the environments and organisms including accumulation in the food chain and collecting the contamination (either organic or inorganic) from the surroundings. However, there is a gap of knowledge in this hot topic especially regarding the effect of microplastics on the terrestrial ecosystem. Therefore, this mini review highlights this issue and addressing some challenges and future prospective in this regard.
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