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Mikroplastik Kirliliği: Sağlık Riskleri ve Sürdürülebilir Çözüm Önerileri
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Researchers reviewed the formation, human exposure pathways, and environmental and health effects of microplastics, finding evidence of their presence in water sources, aquatic organisms, and food products, and emphasizing that oral ingestion and skin contact are primary routes of human exposure while highlighting sustainable fisheries as part of the solution to plastic pollution.
Günlük hayatta yaygın olarak kullanılan plastik malzemeler deniz ekosistemlerinde ciddi bir kirliliğe neden olmaktadır. Plastik atıkların çevreye bırakılmasıyla oluşan mikroplastikler özellikle okyanus ve denizlerde olumsuz etkiler yaratmaktadır. Mikroplastiklerin su kaynakları, gıdalar ve suda yaşayan canlılar aracılığıyla insan vücuduna geçişi cilt teması ve oral yolla gerçekleşmektedir. Ancak bu geçişin sağlık üzerindeki etkileri tam olarak anlaşılamamıştır. Mikroplastiklerin solunum yoluyla alımı ise sadece atmosferik mikroplastiklerin insan vücuduna geçişi ile olabilmektedir. Yapılan çalışmalar su kaynaklarında ve suda yaşayan canlılarda mikroplastik varlığını ortaya koymuş ve gıda maddelerinde de mikroplastik bulunabileceğini göstermiştir. Bu derlemede mikroplastiklerin oluşumu, insanlara geçişi ve çevre ile insan sağlığı üzerindeki etkileri incelenerek plastik kirliliğiyle mücadelede sürdürülebilir balıkçılık yöntemlerinin önemi vurgulanmaktadır.
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