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Megaplastics to Nanoplastics: Emerging Environmental Pollutants and Their Environmental Impacts
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This review traces the continuum of plastic pollution from large macroplastic debris down to nanoplastics, detailing how each size class enters and persists in water, air, and soil while causing distinct ecological harms. The progression from megaplastics to nanoplastics illustrates how a single category of pollutant creates compounding environmental risks across scales.
Pollution of pristine environmental resources such as water, air, and soil by various anthropogenic activities is becoming a serious cause of concern, worldwide. Besides many other sources of pollution, plastics have emerged as a rapidly spreading environmental...
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