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ClearMicroplastics in Environment
This book provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution — covering where microplastics come from, how they spread through oceans, soils, and indoor air, the challenges of detecting them, and strategies for removing or reducing them. It serves as a reference for researchers and policymakers working to understand and address one of the most widespread environmental contaminants of our time.
Microplastic Pollution: Causes, Effects and Control
This book provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution, covering analytical tools and techniques, sources and pathways of contamination, and impacts on both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The authors emphasize the urgency of addressing microplastic pollution through collaborative efforts and sustainable solutions, while examining potential risks to human well-being.
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.
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.
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.
Microplastics analytical challenges and environmental impacts
This book reviewed the growing problem of microplastic pollution in soil and aquatic environments, providing a comprehensive assessment of existing analytical techniques for characterization and quantification alongside regulatory challenges facing plastic recycling and litter reduction.
Microplastic Pollution in the Environment
This book chapter provides a general overview of microplastic pollution, describing the formation, classification, distribution, and environmental fate of plastic particles across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
Exploring microplastic pollution from origin to environmental impact and remediation approaches
This review provides a comprehensive assessment of microplastic pollution, covering their sources from synthetic textiles, cosmetics, and packaging to their fate in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The study critically examines detection techniques, structural and chemical classification methods, and the health risks microplastics pose to organisms including humans.
Microplastics in Water and Wastewater
This book covers the topic of microplastics in water and wastewater, addressing their sources, occurrence, fate, treatment, and regulatory context across the human water cycle. It provides a comprehensive reference for researchers and practitioners working on monitoring and reducing microplastic contamination in drinking water and wastewater systems.
Toxic Effects of Micro‐ and Nanoplastics
This book provides a comprehensive overview of micro- and nanoplastic pollution, covering where these tiny plastic particles come from, how they spread through air, water, and food, and the potential health risks they pose to humans. It also reviews current methods for detecting and analyzing these particles, as well as strategies for cleaning them up from the environment.
Microplastics in the Ecosphere
This book provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution across all major environmental compartments, including water, soil, air, and living organisms. It covers the sources of microplastics, their distribution patterns, and their potential effects on ecosystems and public health. The resource aims to consolidate current knowledge about how these tiny plastic particles move through the ecosphere and what risks they may pose.
Microplastic Pollution: An In-depth Review of its Sources, Formation Mechanisms, Quantification Techniques, Environmental Impacts, Toxicological Effects and Remediation Strategies
This comprehensive review covers the full scope of microplastic pollution, from where microplastics come from and how they form, to how scientists detect and measure them. Researchers summarized the environmental and health impacts of microplastic contamination across ecosystems including water, soil, and air. The study also evaluates current cleanup and remediation strategies, highlighting the need for coordinated global efforts to address this widespread form of pollution.
Microplastics in the environment: Recent developments in characteristic, occurrence, identification and ecological risk
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution across oceans, freshwater, soil, and the atmosphere, examining their sources, movement patterns, and ecological risks. Researchers found that while coastal environments have been well studied, much less is known about microplastic contamination in terrestrial ecosystems. The study synthesizes data on microplastic toxicity, bioaccumulation in organisms, and environmental fate to support better risk assessment.
The Chemistry of the Environment: Processes, Pollutants, and Protection
This textbook examines the chemistry of environmental processes, pollutants, and protection strategies, providing coverage of contaminant behavior in environmental media including the fate and transport of emerging pollutants such as microplastics.
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.
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.
Microplastics Pollution and its Remediation
This publication reviews the growing problem of microplastic pollution in the environment and explores biological and technological strategies for remediation, including microbial degradation and engineered solutions. It highlights the urgent need for practical cleanup approaches as microplastics continue to accumulate across ecosystems worldwide.
Microplastics in the Environment
This is a book-level entry for a comprehensive reference on microplastics in the environment, written by an academic with expertise in MP pollution treatment, green polymer functionalization, and solid waste recycling. It covers MP generation mechanisms, risk prevention, control solutions, and new blocking technologies for managing MPs across environmental compartments.
Microplastics in Marine Ecosystem
This book addresses microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems including sources, environmental fate, and impacts on marine life and human health, along with future solutions such as bacterial biodegradation, membrane technology, and bioengineered microbes.
Microplastics in Water and Wastewater
This book provides comprehensive coverage of microplastics in water and wastewater systems, emphasizing that while marine environments have received most attention, freshwater systems and wastewater treatment plants are equally important sources and sinks of microplastic contamination.
Microplastics: Current Status in the Environment and Human Health Risks: A Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review covers the sources, environmental distribution, food chain entry, and human health risks of microplastics, with particular attention to their role as vectors for chemical pollutants and pathogens. It highlights regulatory gaps and emerging mitigation approaches across terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric systems.
Methods for Micro‐ and Nanoplastics Analysis
This review examines analytical methods for detecting, identifying, and quantifying micro- and nanoplastics across terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments, evaluating identification and quantification techniques as prerequisites for effective remediation of these pervasive contaminants.
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.
Marine Plastics Abatement
This book volume provides comprehensive coverage of plastic pollution in marine ecosystems, including the distribution of micro- and nanoplastics across marine, aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments, alongside assessment tools and circular economy models for addressing the global plastic pollution crisis.