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ClearMicroplastics in the Environment
This book chapter reviews the sources, distribution, fate, and transport of microplastics across terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments. Key topics include the ability of microplastics to adsorb persistent organic pollutants and bioaccumulate through food chains, as well as the physicochemical properties that govern their environmental behavior.
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.
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.
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.
The Spread and Origins of Microplastic Pollution in Aquatic Environments
This chapter examines the sources, distribution, fate, and transport mechanisms of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems worldwide, tracing their origins from multiple plastic product categories and detailing the physical and chemical processes that govern their spread through waterways.
Impact of Microplastics on the Environment and Its Mitigation
This review examines the environmental and biological hazards of microplastics across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, covering their classification as fibers, flakes, fragments, granules, and spheres, their capacity to carry toxic chemicals, and their sorption-desorption dynamics. The authors identify significant gaps in analytical methodology and biological impact data, calling for novel mitigation strategies to address the long-term ecological risks of this emerging contaminant.
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, physical-chemical and biological principles of this environmental liability
This review covers the physical, chemical, and biological principles underlying microplastic behavior in the environment, including how particles fragment, sorb contaminants, and interact with organisms. The authors frame microplastics as a complex environmental stressor whose impacts depend on particle size, shape, polymer type, and the specific biological system exposed.
Microplastics as Vectors of Chemicals and Microorganisms in the Environment
This review examines microplastics as vectors for chemicals and microorganisms in the environment, discussing the 'plastisphere' concept, hydrophobic surface interactions that facilitate pollutant adsorption, biofilm formation, and the mechanisms by which microplastics transport contaminants and pathogens through aquatic systems.
On the issue of microplastics in the environment
This paper examines the origins of microplastic pollution, arguing that its emergence is not solely attributable to polymer chemistry advances and cannot be explained simply by physicochemical degradation processes acting on plastic materials.
Classifications and Physiochemical Properties of Microplastics
This book chapter provides a detailed overview of microplastic classification and physicochemical properties, covering particle size, crystallinity, surface morphology, density, and chemical characteristics. It emphasizes how these properties influence microplastic behavior in the environment, their interactions with organisms, and the reliability of detection methods.
Microplastics Formation
This book chapter provides a comprehensive overview of how microplastics form from primary and secondary sources, covering generation mechanisms from different plastic product forms—films, fibers, foams, rubber—and the role of shape in MP production. It synthesizes fragmentation factors including UV exposure, mechanical stress, and biological activity that drive the transition from bulk plastics to environmental MPs.
Microplastics
This overview paper introduced the topic of microplastics — their origins, classification, environmental distribution, and ecological significance — as an entry point into the broader field of plastic pollution science. It contextualizes current research challenges and policy needs.
Occurrence and Fate of Emerging Contaminants with Microplastics Current Scenario, Sources and Effects
This review chapter covers the current state of microplastic contamination across marine and terrestrial environments, explaining how microplastics act as vectors for other pollutants — including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and heavy metals — that accumulate on their surfaces. These contaminant-laden particles are consumed by marine organisms and travel up the food chain, reaching human food sources. The work underscores that microplastics are not just a physical hazard but also a chemical delivery system that amplifies the toxic burden on ecosystems and people.
Associated pollutants and secondary effects
This book chapter reviews how microplastics act as vectors for harmful chemical additives and hydrophobic pollutants in the environment, summarizing the uptake, transport, and desorption of these secondary contaminants and their toxic effects on exposed organisms.
Micro/Nano-Plastics Pollution
This chapter examines the origins, characteristics, effects, and removal methods for micro- and nanoplastic particles in ecosystems, covering both primary and secondary particle types and their ability to carry harmful substances and disrupt food webs. The authors emphasize that collaborative efforts among researchers, policymakers, and industries are essential for effective detection, mitigation, and prevention strategies.
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.
Microplastics as vectors for environmental contaminants: Exploring sorption, desorption, and transfer to biota
This review explores how microplastics interact with hydrophobic organic chemicals in aquatic environments, examining the processes of chemical sorption onto and desorption from plastic particles. Researchers discuss the factors that influence whether microplastics act as significant carriers of environmental contaminants into living organisms compared to natural pathways. Understanding these processes is essential for accurately assessing the real-world risk that microplastics pose as chemical transport vehicles.
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.
Why Microplastics Are Exceptional Contaminants?
This review examined why microplastics are exceptional contaminants, explaining how their diverse polymers, sizes, shapes, and colors create complex environmental behavior affecting mobility, bioavailability, and ecological impacts across different compartments.
Microplastic Menace
This chapter reviews the ecological menace posed by microplastics and nanoplastics in aquatic environments, examining how these particles disrupt habitats, food chains, and organisms through pollution and bioaccumulation. The authors assess the capacity of plastic particles to adsorb and concentrate harmful chemicals, compounding the direct physical hazard with chemical toxicity risks for marine food webs.
The plastic in microplastics: A review
This review examined the chemical composition and diversity of plastics that become microplastics, summarizing the types of polymers found in the environment and their relevance for understanding ecological and health impacts.
Emerging microplastics in the environment: Properties, distributions, and impacts
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution, covering the most common types of plastics found in the environment, their physical characteristics, and how they are distributed across water, soil, and air. Researchers summarized the potential harmful effects of microplastics on ecosystems and living organisms. The study highlights significant knowledge gaps that still need to be addressed to fully understand the environmental and health risks of these tiny particles.
From Plastics to Microplastics: Quantification, Degradation and Mitigation
This book chapter reviews how plastics break down into microplastics, the methods used to detect and quantify them, and their environmental impacts including their ability to adsorb and concentrate other pollutants. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the microplastics problem from production to environmental harm.