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Sveprisutnost Plastike: Pregled Potencijalnih Izvora Mikroplastike I Savremenih Načina Detekcije
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This paper reviews the ubiquity of plastics in the environment and surveys potential sources of microplastics, along with modern methods for detecting and characterising them. Researchers highlight remaining analytical limitations and call for more education to raise public awareness about the scale of plastic pollution.
limitations. Recently, the MP issue has been more acknowledged, but still, many questions arise and wait to be solved. Further studies are necessary to improve existing analysis methods, and more education is needed to raise awareness amongst the general public about the emerging problem of plastics in nature.
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