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ClearMicroplastic Hazards on Water Quality and Human Health
This paper summarizes the hazards of microplastics to water quality and human health. It highlights key exposure routes and the range of potential health concerns associated with microplastic contamination in drinking water and food sources.
Microplastics pollution in water is a threat for human health and the environment (literature review)
This literature review examines the growing problem of microplastic contamination in water bodies and drinking water worldwide. Evidence indicates that microplastics pose concerns for human health both through their physical effects and through the chemicals and microorganisms they can carry, with studies confirming their presence in marine and freshwater environments across multiple countries.
The Impact of Water Pollution Caused by Plastic Waste: A Threat to Ecosystems and Health
This review investigates how microplastics and larger plastic waste contaminate water bodies, disrupt aquatic life, damage biodiversity, and enter food chains, posing risks to both ecosystems and human health. The study uses a quantitative approach to assess pollution impacts and presents strategies including reduced plastic use, improved waste disposal, and promotion of sustainable alternatives.
Human Health Risks due to Exposure to Water Pollution: A Review
This review looks at how water contamination from various sources -- including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, and industrial chemicals -- threatens public health worldwide. The health effects depend on the type of pollutant and length of exposure, and the paper highlights that microplastics are an emerging concern because they can carry other toxic substances into drinking water.
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.
The Effects of Microplastics on the Human Food Chain and Freshwater Ecosystem
This review examines how microplastic pollution affects freshwater ecosystems and the human food chain, tracing the transfer of MPs from contaminated water through aquatic organisms to human consumers and evaluating the cumulative health risks of dietary plastic exposure.
Microplastic Contamination, an Emerging Threat to the Freshwater Environment and Human Health: A Systematic Review
This systematic review summarizes existing research on microplastic contamination in freshwater environments and its implications for human health. The evidence shows that microplastics are widespread in rivers, lakes, and drinking water sources, and they can absorb toxic chemicals, making freshwater plastic pollution a direct concern for the safety of our water supply.
Effects of plastics and microplastics on aquatic organisms and human health
This review summarizes how plastics and microplastics reach water environments through multiple pathways and harm aquatic organisms including fish, invertebrates, and plankton. Because these organisms are eaten by humans, the review concludes that microplastic contamination of aquatic ecosystems poses a meaningful indirect risk to human health through the food we eat.
Water Pollution: A Menace to Mankind
This review discusses sources of water contamination — including faecal, domestic, and industrial wastes — and their threats to human and aquatic health, with a focus on microplastic pollution as an emerging concern. The authors call for improved water management policies to safeguard human health.
The Environmental and Health Implications of Microplastics on Human and Aquatic Life
This review summarizes the harmful effects of microplastics on both aquatic ecosystems and human health, covering physical injury, chemical toxicity, and immune disruption in marine organisms. Researchers found that microplastics can accumulate through the food chain and potentially affect human health through seafood consumption and other exposure routes. The study highlights the urgent need for policy interventions to reduce plastic pollution at its source.
Microplastic Pollution in Soil and Water and the Potential Effects on Human Health: A Review
This review summarizes the current state of knowledge on microplastic pollution in soil and water environments and its potential effects on human health. Researchers compiled evidence showing that microplastics are now found throughout food chains, drinking water, and air, creating multiple exposure pathways for people. The study highlights that while microplastic contamination is widespread, more research is needed to fully understand the long-term health implications of chronic human exposure.
Microplastic in the Aquatic Environment and their Impact on Aquatic Organisms and Humans: A Review
This review summarizes research on microplastic occurrence across marine water, freshwater, drinking water, wastewater, food, and air, characterizing microplastics as the most hazardous emerging contaminants of the 21st century given their ubiquity and persistence. The review underscores that human exposure through multiple simultaneous pathways — including food, water, and respiration — makes understanding cumulative health risks a critical research and public health priority.
Microplastics in aquatic environment: Challenges and perspectives
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in water environments, covering sources, transport, health effects, detection methods, and control strategies. Microplastics enter waterways from everyday plastic products, industrial discharge, and wastewater treatment plants, where aquatic organisms ingest them and pass them up the food chain. The review highlights the urgent need for better analytical techniques and global policies to reduce microplastic contamination that ultimately reaches human food and drinking water.
The Impact of Plastic Waste on Ecosystems and Human Health and Strategies for Managing It for A Sustainable Environment
This review summarizes the broad impact of plastic waste on ecosystems and human health, covering how plastics break down into micro- and nanoplastics that contaminate soil, water, and air. The authors discuss health risks from plastic exposure including respiratory problems, liver damage, and hormonal disruption. The review calls for better waste management, recycling, and policies to reduce plastic pollution as a public health priority.
Impacts of Microplastics as Contaminants in Freshwater Ecosystems and Human Food Chain
This review examines the impacts of microplastics on freshwater ecosystems and human food chains, tracing how plastic particles enter rivers and lakes, accumulate in fish and invertebrates, and transfer to humans through consumption of contaminated freshwater species.
Microplastics in the environment: A critical overview on its fate, toxicity, implications, management, and bioremediation strategies
This review provides a broad overview of microplastic pollution, covering how these particles enter freshwater systems, accumulate in organisms, and carry toxic chemicals through the food chain. With approximately 360 million tons of plastic produced globally each year and only 7% recycled, microplastics have become a pervasive threat to water quality and, by extension, human health.
Impact of Microplastics on AquaticOrganisms and Human Health: A Review
This review examines how microplastics from degraded plastic debris accumulate in aquatic environments, are ingested by organisms at all levels of the food chain, and may transfer to humans through seafood. The evidence warrants concern about microplastic contamination as an emerging public health issue.
Investigating Micro-Plastic Pollution and its Consequences on Aquatic Communities
This review examined how microplastic pollution affects aquatic communities, discussing sources of microplastics, routes of exposure, and documented ecological consequences for wildlife and the human food supply that depends on healthy aquatic ecosystems.
Investigating the Human Impacts and the Environmental Consequences of Microplastics Disposal into Water Resources
This study provides a systematic review of microplastic pollution in water resources, covering detection methods, analytical techniques, environmental depletion patterns, and human health implications, based on a comprehensive literature analysis from the 1970s onward.
Presence of Microplastics in Drinking Water and Its Impact on Human Health
This review examined evidence for microplastic presence in drinking water sources and distribution systems, discussing how plastic particles form from the fragmentation of larger plastics and reviewing the emerging evidence for human health impacts from drinking water MP exposure.
The Dangers of Plastics to Public Health: A Review
This review summarizes how plastics and the microplastics they degrade into enter biological systems, interact with tissues and organs, and cause harm. It calls for greater public awareness and action to reduce plastic pollution given its growing threat to public health.
Environmental Impact of Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Review of Current Research and Future Directions
This review examines microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems, covering chemical, biological, and ecological processes beyond simple physical contamination and identifying priority areas for future research directions.
Prevalence, Fate and Effects of Plastic in Freshwater Environments
This review summarizes the prevalence, environmental fate, and biological effects of plastics in freshwater ecosystems, an area that has received less attention than marine plastic pollution. Freshwater bodies are major pathways for microplastics to reach marine environments and are themselves affected by plastic contamination.
Effect of microplastics in water and aquatic systems
This review examines the sources, distribution, and effects of microplastics in water and aquatic systems globally. Researchers found that microplastics are ingested by a wide range of aquatic organisms, leading to accumulation of toxic substances and disruption of physiological functions. The study highlights the urgent need for better waste management policies and further research into the long-term ecological consequences of microplastic pollution in freshwater and marine environments.