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Human Health Effects
Marine & Wildlife
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Microplastics: An Unsafe Pathway from Aquatic Environment to Health—A Review
SpringerBriefs in environmental science
2018
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Guncha Sharma,
Chirashree Ghosh
Summary
Researchers reviewed how microplastics travel from aquatic environments into the human body, tracing pathways through contaminated water, seafood, and aquatic food chains, and highlighting gaps in our understanding of the resulting health risks across multiple organ systems.
Waste is considered to be any solid material that is manufactured or processed and then discarded or disposed, ending up either in a terrestrial or an aquatic environment. It is possible to curb the negative effects of waste when it is dumped on land, but as it...