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ClearMicroplastic pollution in soils, plants, and animals: A review of distributions, effects and potential mechanisms
This review covers the distribution and effects of microplastics in soils, plants, and animals, examining how plastic pollution moves through terrestrial ecosystems. Microplastics in soil can alter microbial communities, reduce plant growth, and accumulate in animals that ingest contaminated food or water. The review highlights that land-based microplastic pollution is as serious a concern as ocean contamination and poses direct risks to agriculture and human food safety.
Research progress on the sources and toxicology of micro (nano) plastics in environment
This review covers sources, distribution, and toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics across soil, water, and air, including effects on organisms and human health. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge on environmental microplastic contamination and its consequences.
Microplastics in Environmental Setting: A Review on Sources, Exposure Routes and Potential Toxicities on Human Health
This review examines microplastics in environmental settings, synthesizing current knowledge on sources, distribution across terrestrial and aquatic compartments, fate processes, and ecological consequences. The authors identify priority research areas needed to address remaining uncertainties in microplastic risk assessment.
A Review of Microplastic Pollution: Harmful Effect on Environment and Animals, Remediation Strategies
This review provides a broad overview of microplastic pollution, covering its sources, environmental distribution, and harmful effects on wildlife and ecosystems. Researchers summarize current knowledge about how microplastics enter food chains and interact with other pollutants. The study also evaluates existing cleanup and remediation strategies for addressing microplastic contamination across different environments.
Microplastics in ecosystems: their implications and mitigation pathways
This review examined the implications of microplastic pollution across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and outlined mitigation pathways to address this emerging environmental threat.
Microplastics: Their effects on the environment, human health, and plant ecosystems
Researchers reviewed how microplastics enter the human body through ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact, potentially causing cell damage, hormone disruption, and cardiovascular harm, while also degrading soil quality and stunting plant growth. The review urges urgent action given how thoroughly these particles have infiltrated both human health and agricultural systems.
Microplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment: sources (with a specific focus on personal care products), fate and effects
This review catalogued sources of microplastics in aquatic and terrestrial environments — with special focus on agricultural plastics — and summarized pathways through which they enter food chains and affect ecosystems.
Unveiling the complex impact of microplastics on environmental health, ecosystems, and humans
This comprehensive review consolidates current knowledge on microplastic pollution across marine, freshwater, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments. Researchers examined sources, transport pathways, impacts on living organisms, sampling techniques, and regulatory challenges, highlighting significant gaps in understanding the full scope of microplastic effects on ecosystems and human well-being.
Emerging Risk of Microplastics on Health, Agriculture and Environment
This review examines the emerging risks that microplastics pose to human health, agriculture, and ecosystems, covering exposure routes from food, water, and air. Researchers highlighted concerning findings such as the detection of microplastics in human placentas and their potential to carry harmful chemicals into the body. The study emphasizes that microplastic contamination is a growing global concern that requires coordinated research and policy responses across multiple sectors.
Microplastic Pollution in the Environment
This review examines microplastic pollution across environmental compartments — treated and surface water, groundwater, drinking water, and wastewater treatment plants — synthesizing data on sources, concentrations, and fates of these persistent emerging contaminants.
Microplastics in the ecosystems: Impacts on environmental sustainability
This review examines the widespread contamination of ecosystems by microplastics, discussing how MPs from agricultural inputs and plastic containers accumulate in soil, water, and organisms, posing significant ecological and health risks.
Microplastic Pollution: An Emerging Threat to Terrestrial Plants and Insights into Its Remediation Strategies
This review highlights the emerging threat of microplastic pollution to terrestrial plants and agroecosystems, summarizing sources, interactions with soil and crops, and potential remediation strategies for safe agricultural practices.
Plastic effects on marine and freshwater environments
Researchers reviewed current literature on how plastic pollution harms marine and freshwater environments, finding that microplastics have become a primary concern across studies covering animal health, human health, and ecosystem impacts. A key gap identified is the lack of clear connections linking plastic effects across these three domains — environment, wildlife, and human health — into a unified understanding.
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.
Sources, environmental fate, and impacts of microplastic contamination in agricultural soils: A comprehensive review
This review examines how microplastics from fertilizers, irrigation, and atmospheric fallout are contaminating agricultural soils worldwide. Once in the soil, microplastics interact with soil organisms, disrupt plant growth, and can carry other harmful chemicals deeper into the environment. Because these tiny plastics can move up the food chain, they represent a growing threat to both food safety and human health.
Environmental distribution, transport and ecotoxicity of microplastics: A review
This review covers the environmental distribution and transport of microplastics across marine, freshwater, soil, and atmospheric compartments, and analyzes their toxicity to organisms at different trophic levels including potential effects on human health.
The extent and impacts of soil pollution by microplastics
This study examines the extent and impacts of soil pollution by microplastics, reviewing evidence of how microplastic particles accumulate in terrestrial environments and affect soil ecosystems, organisms, and agricultural systems.
Environmental microplastics: Classification, sources, fates, and effects on plants
This review classifies microplastics by source, fate, and environmental behavior, synthesizing over 9,000 recent publications on how microplastics accumulate in agricultural ecosystems and exert adverse effects on plant growth, physiology, and soil health.
Microplastics in the Environment: Uptake, Bioaccumulation and Impacts on Plants, Animals and Humans Health: A Review
This review comprehensively examines microplastic contamination across all environmental compartments including soil, air, water, and oceans, and their detection in food, animals, and humans. The study summarizes how humans are exposed to microplastics through ingestion, inhalation, and dermal absorption, and discusses the bioaccumulation of these particles in plants, animals, and human tissues.
Microplastics in the environment: Occurrence, perils, and eradication
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in various environmental compartments including water, soil, and air. Researchers summarize the sources, transport mechanisms, and potential harmful effects of microplastics on ecosystems and human health. The study also evaluates current eradication and remediation strategies, noting that while several promising approaches exist, no single method can fully address the scale of global microplastic contamination.
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.
Microplastics Contamination in the Environment: An Ecotoxicological Concern
This review examines the sources, distribution, and toxic effects of microplastics across terrestrial and aquatic environments. The authors summarize evidence that microplastics harm a wide range of organisms by causing physical injury, delivering chemical pollutants, and disrupting ecosystem processes.
Potential effects of plastic waste: microplastics, a global concern
This review examined how the degradation of plastics into microplastics smaller than 5 mm affects aquatic organisms and human health, discussing sources, affected environmental compartments—soil, air, and water—and alternative approaches to mitigate plastic pollution.
Overview of microplastic pollution and its influence on the health of organisms
This review summarizes microplastic pollution across marine, freshwater, and soil environments and its effects on organisms ranging from plankton to mammals. Microplastics disrupt feeding behavior, trigger oxidative stress, alter gut bacteria, and impair reproduction in exposed species. The authors note that microplastics also enter the human body through food, water, and air, posing potential health risks that require further research.