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ClearMitigation measures to avert the impacts of plastics and microplastics in the marine environment (a review)
This review examines the growing problem of plastic and microplastic pollution in marine environments and evaluates various mitigation strategies. The authors discuss approaches including reducing plastic production, improving waste management, developing biodegradable alternatives, and implementing cleanup technologies. The study emphasizes that a combination of prevention, policy intervention, and innovative solutions is needed to address the scale of marine plastic contamination.
Tackling Marine Microplastics Pollution: an Overview of Existing Solutions
This review provides an overview of existing technologies and solutions designed to reduce microplastic pollution in marine environments. The paper covers approaches for both preventing further microplastic emissions and collecting microplastics already released into aquatic ecosystems, noting that microplastics travel through the food chain from small organisms up to humans.
Unravelling the Waves: Navigating Microplastics Pollution in the Marine Realm and Crafting Remedial Solutions
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in marine environments, covering prevalence, persistence, ecological impacts, and remediation solutions. The authors assess current mitigation approaches and highlight the need for integrated policy, improved monitoring, and technological innovation to address the growing threat to ocean health.
Unraveling the Impacts of Ocean Plastic Pollution and Strategies for Effective Mitigation
This review examines the multifaceted impacts of ocean plastic pollution on marine life, water quality, and human activities, while surveying mitigation strategies ranging from waste management improvements and extended producer responsibility to clean-up technologies.
Microplastic pollution in the marine environment: A review
This review covers the full scope of microplastic pollution in the ocean, from sources and distribution to effects on marine life and potential solutions. Microplastics have been found in marine organisms at every level of the food chain, raising concerns about human exposure through seafood. The authors emphasize that global plastic production continues to rise, making better waste management and policy action urgent.
Marine Litter: Solutions for a Major Environmental Problem
This paper reviews the sources, distribution, and impacts of marine litter — primarily plastics — on beaches and oceans, and surveys proposed solutions ranging from improved waste management to policy interventions and cleanup technologies. It provides a broad overview of the challenge of reducing plastic pollution at a global scale.
A Comparison of new and age-old approaches treating microplastics in the marine environment
This review compares existing and emerging technologies for removing, recycling, or degrading microplastics in the ocean, concluding that current approaches remain insufficient to address the scale of marine plastic pollution.
Management of Marine Plastic Debris and Microplastics
This review examines the status of marine plastic debris pollution -- spanning nanoplastics (1-100 nm) to microplastics (0.1-5,000 micrometers) -- and evaluates management approaches for addressing this global environmental threat. The authors discuss how synthetic particles drift through ocean circulation to accumulate in coastal and remote regions, and survey environmental, ecological, economic, social, and health consequences alongside current mitigation strategies.
Impact and Solution of Marine Plastic Pollution: A Review
This review examines the sources, distribution, and ecological impacts of marine plastic pollution, classifying accumulated ocean plastics into five size categories from mega- to nano-scale. The paper discusses how microplastics enter food webs through ingestion by marine animals and surveys proposed mitigation strategies to address this critical anthropogenic threat.
Microplastic pollution in marine environments: An in-depth analysis of advanced monitoring techniques, removal technologies, and future challenges
This review provides a comprehensive analysis of microplastic pollution in marine environments, covering sources, ecological impacts, and current monitoring and removal technologies. Researchers examined physical, chemical, and biological methods for microplastic detection and cleanup, including filtration, separation, and hybrid approaches. The study concludes that while progress has been made, significant gaps remain in our ability to effectively monitor and remove microplastics from ocean ecosystems.
A review of the cost and effectiveness of solutions to address plastic pollution
This review evaluates the cost and effectiveness of solutions to plastic pollution, from recycling technologies to policy measures like bans and levies. As of 2017, only 9% of the 9 billion tons of plastic ever produced had been recycled, leaving enormous amounts to break down into microplastics that contaminate the environment. The authors conclude that no single solution is sufficient and that combining multiple approaches is needed to reduce the health and economic impacts of plastic pollution.
Critical review of microplastics removal from the environment
This review evaluates technologies for removing microplastics from the environment, including physical methods like filtration, chemical treatments, and biological approaches using microorganisms. Each method has trade-offs between effectiveness, cost, and scalability, and no single technology can solve the problem alone. The authors emphasize that reducing human exposure to microplastics requires combining better removal technologies with policies that limit plastic production and waste at the source.
An Overview of the Current Trends in Marine Plastic Litter Management for a Sustainable Development
This review summarizes current knowledge about marine plastic litter, from its land-based origins to its distribution across ocean environments, and evaluates recovery and recycling strategies. Researchers found that while technologies for collecting and recycling marine plastics are advancing, significant economic and logistical barriers remain. The study emphasizes that a circular economy approach, combining prevention, collection, and material recovery, is essential for addressing ocean plastic pollution.
Micro- and Nano-Plastics Contaminants in the Environment: Sources, Fate, Toxicity, Detection, Remediation, and Sustainable Perspectives
This review provides a broad overview of micro- and nanoplastic pollution, covering where these particles come from, how they spread through the environment, and the damage they cause to living things including humans. The authors also compare different methods for removing microplastics from the environment, including physical, chemical, and biological approaches. The paper calls for more research and global cooperation to develop better tools for measuring the health risks of plastic pollution.
Microplastics pollution in the marine environment: A review of sources, impacts and mitigation
This review summarizes how millions of tons of plastic waste enter the oceans each year and break into microplastics that absorb pollutants, heavy metals, and chemical additives. These contaminated particles pose risks to human health when they enter the food chain through seafood consumption.
Solutions and Integrated Strategies for the Control and Mitigation of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution
This review evaluates existing strategies for controlling plastic and microplastic pollution and proposes integrated solutions spanning prevention, collection, and treatment. Researchers found that current cleanup efforts cannot keep pace with the volume of plastic entering the environment, making source reduction essential. The study advocates for a combination of policy changes, improved waste management, innovative materials, and public education to address the crisis.
Plastic Pollution: Challenges and Innovative Solutions
This review examines the multifaceted challenges of plastic pollution and surveys innovative solutions spanning material design, waste management, and remediation technologies. The paper synthesises current research on microplastic sources, environmental persistence, and emerging approaches to reducing plastic releases into ecosystems.
Strategies for Monitoring and Reducing Microplastic Pollution in Oceans
This review examined the sources, distribution, and ecological health impacts of marine microplastic pollution over the past five years, and discussed monitoring technologies and governance strategies needed to reduce microplastic contamination in ocean environments.
Marine litter: how to monitor, reduce and prevent ocean debris. Focus on plastics and microplastics.
This report reviewed the growing problem of plastic pollution in the oceans and the policy landscape for addressing it, emphasizing that production, use, and end-of-life management all require reform. It frames plastic pollution as a systemic challenge requiring coordinated international action rather than single-issue solutions.
Integrated approaches for plastic waste management
This review surveys the full spectrum of approaches — recycling, biodegradation by microbes, and chemical or physical treatment — for managing the enormous global volume of plastic waste that otherwise persists in the environment for hundreds of years. The authors argue that no single method is sufficient and that an integrated strategy combining multiple techniques is needed to prevent plastics from fragmenting into environmentally harmful microplastics. The review provides a useful overview for policymakers and researchers looking to reduce plastic pollution at scale.
Current Advances in Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Micro/Nano Plastics: A Review
This review summarizes current strategies for mitigating the environmental and health impacts of micro- and nanoplastics, covering physical, chemical, and biological approaches to removal and degradation. It highlights that no single solution is adequate and that a combination of prevention, better waste management, and remediation technologies will be needed.
A review of the cost and effectiveness of solutions to address plastic pollution
This review evaluates the cost and effectiveness of technologies and policies designed to reduce plastic and microplastic pollution, from recycling and waste management to in-stream cleanup devices and regulatory measures. The authors find that addressing plastic pollution requires coordinated action across the full lifecycle of plastics.
Microplastics pollution in Indian marine environment: sources, effects and solutions
This review provides a comprehensive look at microplastic pollution in India's marine environment, covering sources, transport, effects on marine life, and potential solutions. Microplastics are being ingested by organisms at every level of the food chain, causing inflammation, hormonal disruption, and reproductive problems that eventually affect humans through seafood. The authors call for stronger policies, better waste management, and public awareness to address this growing threat to both marine ecosystems and human health.
The detrimental impact of microplastics on the Marine Environment and potential remediation strategies.
This review analyzes the detrimental impacts of microplastics on marine environments, summarizing documented hazards to marine life and ecosystems from historical and recent research, and evaluates several representative remediation strategies for addressing microplastic contamination. The authors found that microplastics interfere broadly with marine organism physiology and food web dynamics, and that current treatment approaches — including filtration, photocatalysis, and biological degradation — each carry limitations requiring further development for large-scale application.