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Microplastics Pollution

This book chapter provides a broad overview of microplastic pollution, covering the sources, environmental distribution, ecological impacts, and remediation challenges of plastic particles across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

2025
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Microplastic Pollution in the Environment

This book chapter provides an overview of microplastic and nanoplastic pollution as emerging environmental contaminants, describing their formation, persistence in the environment, pathways of biological exposure, and potential toxicity to ecosystems and human health.

2025
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Microplastic Pollution in the Environment

This book chapter provides an overview of microplastic accumulation in marine and aquatic habitats, describing how plastic particles fragment, distribute across environmental compartments, and serve as vectors for chemical pollutants and pathogens.

2025
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Microplastics Pollutants—Potential Impact on Ecosystems

This book chapter reviews the origins, environmental distribution, and ecological impacts of microplastic pollutants across terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems, and discusses current methods for identifying and removing these persistent contaminants.

2024 ACS symposium series 1 citations
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Microplastic Pollution in the Environment

This book chapter provides an overview of microplastic and nanoplastic contamination across land, air, and water environments, discussing the sources of plastic pollution, detection methods, ecological effects, and regulatory approaches to address this global environmental challenge.

2025
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Microplastics Formation, Distribution, Impact, and Mitigation Strategy: A Review

This review covers the formation, environmental distribution, ecological impacts, and mitigation strategies for microplastics, synthesizing the global evidence base on how microplastic pollution spreads through air, water, and soil and harms living organisms.

2025 SEAS (Sustainable Environment Agricultural Science)
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Microplastic Pollution: Fate, Sources, Transport and Identification

This review summarizes the sources, fate, transport, and identification methods for microplastics in aquatic and terrestrial environments, highlighting their global distribution across all ecosystems and the growing concern for their impacts on marine life, other organisms, and human health.

2023 4 citations
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The Spread and Origins of Microplastic Pollution in Aquatic Environments

This chapter examines the sources, distribution, fate, and transport mechanisms of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems worldwide, tracing their origins from multiple plastic product categories and detailing the physical and chemical processes that govern their spread through waterways.

2025
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Microplastics in the Environment

This chapter reviews the sources, distribution, and environmental persistence of microplastics — small plastic debris less than 5 mm — in both marine and terrestrial environments. It provides an accessible overview of how microplastics enter ecosystems and the concerns they raise for wildlife and human health.

2018 22 citations
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Microplastics in the Environment

This book chapter reviews the sources, distribution, fate, and transport of microplastics across terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments. Key topics include the ability of microplastics to adsorb persistent organic pollutants and bioaccumulate through food chains, as well as the physicochemical properties that govern their environmental behavior.

2025
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Microplastic Pollution in the Environment

This review examines the ubiquitous presence of microplastics as emerging environmental pollutants across all major environmental compartments, synthesizing data on their sources, fates, and concentrations over time and space to characterize the scale of global contamination.

2025
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Microplastics Pollution

This review summarizes the current state of knowledge about microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems, covering sources, distribution, and ecological impacts. The study emphasizes that plastics are virtually indestructible in the environment and that microplastics are now ubiquitous in ocean food chains.

2020 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks
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Microplastics in Environment and Effects on Biota

This review summarizes how microplastics form from plastic breakdown in nature or are manufactured at small sizes, spread across ecosystems, and harm organisms from microbes to larger animals. It emphasizes that poor plastic waste management is driving a growing global pollution crisis with broad ecological consequences.

2020 Turkish Journal of Water Science and Management 3 citations
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Microplastics: Formation, Disposition, and Associated Dangers. an Overview

This overview traces the formation of microplastics from the fragmentation of larger plastics and their spread into rivers, oceans, lakes, and agricultural soils, summarizing the associated dangers to ecosystems and human health. The exponential rise in plastic use globally is identified as the root driver of mounting microplastic contamination.

2023 Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society 5 citations
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Characteristics of Plastic Pollution in the Environment: A Review.

This review covers the key characteristics of plastic pollution — including sources, abundance, transport, and degradation — across different environmental compartments. It synthesizes knowledge about what makes plastic pollution persistent and widespread, providing a foundation for understanding microplastic formation and behavior in the environment.

2021 Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology
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Microplastics and Nanoplastics in the Environment

This book chapter introduces the growing problem of microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment, covering their origins, distribution, and potential impacts. Plastics have transformed modern life but now accumulate throughout ecosystems and the food chain, raising broad environmental and health concerns that are the subject of rapidly growing scientific investigation.

2020 2 citations
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Invisible Threats The Impact of Micro Plastics on Our Environment

This overview paper summarizes the environmental threats posed by microplastics, covering their sources, persistence, distribution in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and potential biological and ecological consequences.

2025 Journal on Applied and Chemical Physics
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Environmental source, fate, and toxicity of microplastics

This comprehensive review covers the sources, environmental fate, and toxic effects of microplastics across both aquatic and terrestrial environments. The study highlights that microplastics are now found virtually everywhere on Earth and can harm organisms through physical damage, chemical leaching, and by acting as carriers for other pollutants.

2020 Journal of Hazardous Materials 982 citations
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Microplastic sources, fate and solution

This book provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic sources, environmental distribution, chemical behavior, and ecological threats, synthesizing current research on this global pollutant.

2023 8 citations
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Marine Microplastic Pollution

This review examines microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems, summarizing the sources, distribution, and ecological effects of plastic particles in ocean environments and reviewing evidence for harm to marine organisms from physical ingestion and chemical exposure.

2025