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Microplastics in the environment: characteristic, identification and potential risk
Summary
This review describes the characteristics and sources of microplastics as environmental contaminants, with focus on marine ecosystems, and evaluates available identification methods. The paper also discusses the ability of microplastics to accumulate organic and inorganic pollutants and the potential harmful effects on aquatic organisms.
Plastics are widely used in industry as well as in a daily lives. Large amounts of plastics debris are delivered into environment, especially into aqueous ecosystems and transformed into microplastics. The present work describes microplastics as the marine environment contaminants, their sources and also methods of their identification in the environment. Moreover, the ability of plastics to acculumation of organic and inorganic contaminants and possible harmful effect on the aquatic organisms is also discussed in presented work.