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ClearThe growing threats and mitigation of environmental microplastics
This review summarizes the growing threat of microplastic pollution across soil, air, and water, and its harmful effects on marine life, land animals, and humans. Microplastics enter the body through ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact, where they can suppress the immune system, cause inflammation, blood cell damage, and even death in organisms. The review highlights that as plastics age and break down, they become more toxic and more easily absorbed by living things.
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 and nanoplastics: Source, behavior, remediation, and multi-level environmental impact
This review summarizes existing research on where microplastics and nanoplastics come from, how they move through air, water, and soil, and their toxic effects on living organisms from marine life to humans. Once ingested, these particles accumulate in the body over time through a process called bioaccumulation and can become more concentrated as they move up the food chain. The authors highlight that effectively addressing plastic pollution will require combining cleanup technologies with strong regulatory policies.
Recent Advances in Microplastic Pollution for its Sustainable Management
This review covers the many sources of microplastic pollution -- from industrial waste and textiles to agricultural runoff -- and evaluates current strategies for managing the problem. The authors discuss both prevention approaches like biodegradable alternatives and cleanup technologies, emphasizing that microplastics pose health risks to humans through contaminated water, food, and air.
Microplastic pollution: Sources, fate, impacts and research gaps
This review summarizes the sources, environmental fate, and health impacts of microplastics across oceans, rivers, soils, and polar regions. It highlights that microplastics carry toxic chemicals into ecosystems and can enter the human body through food, water, and air.
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.
Microplastic Pollution in the Environment
This review covers microplastic pollution across environmental compartments, examining how plastic particles threaten agricultural production, aquatic ecosystems, groundwater, plant growth, and human and animal health through multiple exposure and toxicity pathways.
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.
Microplastics: Environmental Impacts, Detection Techniques and Mitigation Strategies
This review synthesizes current knowledge on microplastic contamination across marine, terrestrial, and living systems — including soils, tap water, food chains, and human cells — and evaluates available detection methods and mitigation strategies. It identifies key gaps in understanding the full biological and ecological implications of microplastic exposure and provides recommendations for future research priorities.
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.
The impact of microplastic pollution on human health - current issues
This review covers the sources, distribution, and ecological implications of microplastics in terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments, synthesizing existing knowledge and research gaps. It finds that MPs are a global contaminant threatening biodiversity and human health through chemical leaching, endocrine disruption, and physical harm to organisms at multiple trophic levels.
Overview of microplastics in the environment: type, source, potential effects and removal strategies
This review examines microplastic types, sources, and health effects across land and marine environments, discussing remediation technologies and emphasizing the need for international cooperation to address this global pollution challenge.
Impacts of microplastics on ecosystem services and their microbial degradation: a systematic review of the recent state of the art and future prospects
This systematic review summarized microplastic distribution across water, soil, food, and air and cataloged reported health effects including digestive illness, respiratory disorders, sleep disturbances, obesity, diabetes, and cancer following exposure. It highlighted microbial degradation strategies including biofilms and genetically modified microorganisms as promising approaches for environmental microplastic remediation.
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.
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 Pollution: Global Challenge and Future Potential Solution
This review summarizes the global challenge of microplastic pollution, attributing it to increasing plastic demand across all sectors combined with poor waste management, and explores potential future solutions for reducing microplastic inputs to water, soil, and air.
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.
Microplastics in ecological system: Their prevalence, health effects, and remediation
This review provides an overview of microplastic prevalence across different ecosystems and their potential effects on environmental and human health. The researchers discuss how microplastics enter water, soil, and food chains, and examine the various biological effects documented in organisms. They also review current remediation strategies being developed to address microplastic contamination.
A Review of Sources, Hazards, and Removal Methods of Microplastics in the Environment
This systematic review provides a comprehensive look at where microplastics come from, what risks they pose, and how they can be removed from the environment. The review covers contamination in air, water, and soil, noting that microplastics can carry toxic chemicals and harm both ecosystems and human health.
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.
Environmental pollution by microplastics and its consequences on human health
This narrative review examines how plastics discarded in the environment fragment into microplastics through environmental and biological stresses, accumulate across terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and enter human bodies primarily through seafood, drinking water, and air inhalation, summarizing documented toxicological consequences for human health based on literature published from 2017 to 2022.
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.
Tracking Microplastics From Source to Impact: A Review of Environmental Presence, Exposure, Remediation, and Health Risks
Researchers reviewed current evidence on microplastic occurrence across environmental compartments, human tissues, and health outcomes, finding emerging links to digestive and respiratory harm while noting that remediation strategies remain limited and that future studies require better-standardized, environmentally relevant reference materials.
Current status of microplastic pollution and the latest treatment technologies
This review provides a comprehensive overview of global microplastic pollution, covering sources, distribution across water, soil, and air, and potential hazards to human health. Researchers summarized the latest analytical techniques for detecting microplastics and current countermeasures being developed to address the problem. The study highlights that microplastics come from diverse sources and that their small size allows them to enter the body through multiple pathways.