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Advancing environmental sustainability through emerging AI-based monitoring and mitigation strategies for microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems

This review explores how artificial intelligence technologies, including machine learning, computer vision, and remote sensing, can improve the detection, tracking, and removal of microplastic pollution in waterways. Researchers found that AI-based approaches offer significant advantages over traditional monitoring methods for identifying microplastic distribution patterns. The study highlights the potential of AI-driven robotic systems to support more efficient and scalable environmental cleanup efforts.

2025 World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences 2 citations
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Microplastic Pollution Studies and Management

This review explores how artificial intelligence is transforming microplastic research, from automating detection in microscopy images and spectral analysis to predicting how plastics interact with pollutants and living organisms. AI-powered sensors and real-time monitoring systems are also being integrated into wastewater treatment to reduce microplastic release, making the technology a powerful tool for both understanding and managing plastic pollution.

2025 Recent Progress in Science and Engineering 2 citations
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A Review on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Wastewater Treatment

This review summarizes how artificial intelligence models are being applied to improve wastewater treatment processes, including the removal of microplastics and other pollutants. Researchers found that machine learning and neural networks can effectively predict treatment efficiency, optimize operations, and reduce energy costs. The study suggests that AI-driven approaches could make water treatment systems more adaptive and cost-effective in handling emerging contaminants.

2023 Sustainability 110 citations
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Advancing microplastic pollution management in aquatic environments through artificial intelligence

This review examines how artificial intelligence and robotics are being applied to tackle microplastic pollution in aquatic environments, covering waste collection, particle identification, and degradation monitoring. Researchers highlight several successful AI-driven projects deployed by countries and organizations around the world. The study suggests that integrating AI with traditional environmental methods holds significant promise for improving both the speed and accuracy of microplastic management.

2025 Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering 1 citations
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Microplastic Pollution Control in Lakes: Detection, Prediction and Removal

This review examines how artificial intelligence is being applied to detect, predict, and manage microplastic pollution in lakes. Researchers found that AI tools including computer vision, remote sensing, and machine learning algorithms enable automated identification and real-time monitoring that surpass traditional labor-intensive methods. The study identifies challenges such as data scarcity and model generalization while highlighting AI's potential to transform freshwater microplastic management.

2025 Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology 1 citations
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Data Driven AI (artificial Intelligence) Detection Furnish Economic Pathways for Microplastics

Researchers reviewed how artificial intelligence is being applied to detect and track microplastics in water, arguing that AI-driven methods can make monitoring faster, cheaper, and more scalable than traditional approaches. Because microplastics are too small to be caught by standard water filters, smarter detection tools are critical for protecting drinking water and aquatic ecosystems.

2025
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A Critical Review on Artificial Intelligence—Based Microplastics Imaging Technology: Recent Advances, Hot-Spots and Challenges

Researchers reviewed the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for detecting and identifying microplastics in environmental samples. The study found that AI-based imaging tools can significantly speed up analysis and improve accuracy compared to traditional manual methods. However, challenges remain around standardizing datasets and making these tools accessible for routine environmental monitoring.

2023 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 56 citations
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Approaches for Automatic Microplastics Identification and Characterization

This review examines how artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms are being applied to identify, characterize, and model microplastic pollution in the environment. The authors found that these tools can analyze large sensor datasets to detect microplastics in water bodies, predict transport patterns, and model adsorption behavior under various environmental conditions. The study highlights the growing role of computational approaches in understanding and mitigating microplastic contamination.

2024 3 citations
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Microplastic Pollution Control in Lakes: Detection, Prediction and Removal

This review examines how artificial intelligence techniques are being applied to detect, predict, and assist in the removal of microplastic pollution in lake environments, surveying current AI-driven approaches to environmental monitoring and remediation.

2025 SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
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The Development of Sensors for Microplastic Detection Using Artificial Intelligence

This review examined AI-enhanced sensors developed for microplastic detection and characterization in aquatic environments, covering machine learning, deep learning, and spectroscopic sensor approaches. The authors found that AI substantially reduces the labor intensity of microplastic identification and improves detection of small particles, though training dataset standardization and real-world validation remain priority challenges.

2025 International Journal of Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial intelligence in microplastic detection and pollution control

This review examines how artificial intelligence is being combined with spectroscopy and imaging techniques to dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of microplastic detection in the environment. Better detection methods are essential for tracking the sources and spread of microplastic pollution that ultimately affects human health through contaminated food and water.

2024 Environmental Research 68 citations
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Role of AI in Microplastic Pollution Detection and management studies

This review assessed how artificial intelligence approaches—including machine learning and deep learning—are being applied to detect, identify, and monitor microplastics in environmental and biological samples. The authors found AI substantially accelerates microplastic characterization workflows but that training data quality and standardization across studies remains a limiting factor.

2025
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Data driven AI (artificial intelligence) detection furnish economic pathways for microplastics

This review examines how artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches are being applied to detect and classify microplastics in water more quickly and affordably than traditional laboratory methods. Researchers found that AI-powered image recognition and spectral analysis tools can significantly speed up identification while reducing costs. The study suggests that data-driven detection methods could make large-scale microplastic monitoring more practical and accessible.

2024 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 8 citations
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Advances in machine learning for the detection and characterization of microplastics in the environment

This review examines how machine learning and artificial intelligence are being used to speed up and improve the detection of microplastics in the environment. Techniques like neural networks and computer vision can now automatically identify plastic types and count particles much faster than traditional manual methods, though challenges remain in standardizing these approaches.

2025 Frontiers in Environmental Science 34 citations
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Using artificial intelligence to rapidly identify microplastics pollution and predict microplastics environmental behaviors

This review summarizes how artificial intelligence and machine learning are being used to identify, track, and predict the environmental behavior of microplastics in soil and water. AI methods can analyze the chemical composition, shape, and distribution of microplastics faster and more accurately than traditional techniques. The technology could help scientists better understand where microplastics accumulate and what risks they pose to ecosystems and human health.

2024 Journal of Hazardous Materials 50 citations
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Artificial intelligence for modeling and reducing microplastic in marine environments: A review of current evidence

This review examines how artificial intelligence is being applied to address marine microplastic pollution, including modeling accumulation zones, developing real-time detection systems using remote sensing and robotics, and creating AI-based filtration technologies. The study suggests that while AI holds significant promise for predicting microplastic flows and supporting targeted cleanup efforts, challenges remain around data availability, model refinement, and international collaboration.

2026 Marine Pollution Bulletin
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Artificial intelligence in microplastics domain: Current progress, challenges, and sustainable prospects

This critical review assesses how artificial intelligence tools—including machine learning and image recognition—are being applied to detect, characterize, and predict the behavior of microplastics in the environment. AI approaches show promise for overcoming persistent bottlenecks in large-scale microplastic analysis, but the authors highlight challenges around data quality, model interpretability, and standardization that must be addressed for these tools to reach their potential.

2026 Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Machine learning: Next promising trend for microplastics study

This review explains how machine learning -- a type of artificial intelligence -- is being applied to microplastics research to speed up identification, predict pollution patterns, and analyze environmental risks. Traditional methods of identifying microplastics are slow and labor-intensive, but machine learning can process large datasets much faster and more accurately. Better detection tools are important because they help scientists understand the true scale of human microplastic exposure.

2023 Journal of Environmental Management 61 citations
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Artificial intelligence-empowered collection and characterization of microplastics: A review

This review examines how artificial intelligence tools like robots and machine learning are being used to collect, identify, and characterize microplastic pollution more efficiently. Better detection technology matters for human health because accurately measuring microplastic contamination in water and soil is the first step toward understanding and reducing our exposure.

2024 Journal of Hazardous Materials 41 citations
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Innovative approaches to greywater micropollutant removal: AI-driven solutions and future outlook

This review examines how artificial intelligence, particularly neural networks, can improve the treatment of greywater (household wastewater from sinks, showers, and laundry) that contains microplastics and other pollutants. AI models offer better predictions of treatment outcomes than traditional methods, which could lead to more effective removal of microplastics from wastewater. Since greywater is a significant source of microplastics entering the environment, better treatment could reduce human exposure.

2025 RSC Advances 11 citations