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Occurrence and Ecotoxicological Effects of Microplastics on Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems

˜The œhandbook of environmental chemistry 2020 35 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Ved Prakash, Shreya Dwivedi, Krishna Gautam, Monika Seth, Sadasivam Anbumani

Summary

Researchers reviewed how microplastics — now present in the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe — accumulate in and harm both aquatic and land-based ecosystems, highlighting the broad reach of plastic pollution as a threat to wildlife and potentially to human health.

The practice of using plastic for several decades now has shown its close association with us owing to its omnipresence in water and food we consume and the air we breathe. Anthropogenic activity, the most imperative cause of microplastic (MP) contamination, is...

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