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ClearToxic 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.
The Occurrence of Microplastics in the Indoor Environment
This book examines the occurrence of microplastics in indoor environments, covering sources, accumulation patterns, and implications for human exposure. It compiles research on indoor microplastic contamination as a growing area of concern distinct from outdoor and aquatic pollution.
Microplastics in the Environment
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution, covering classification, detection techniques, risk assessment, and remediation strategies across aquatic and terrestrial environments. It addresses both the fundamental science and practical approaches to minimizing microplastic contamination.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microplastic Pollution in the Environment
This review examines the ubiquitous presence of microplastics as emerging environmental pollutants across all major environmental compartments, synthesizing data on their sources, fates, and concentrations over time and space to characterize the scale of global contamination.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Micro(nano)plastics in the total environment – A holistic review
This comprehensive review examined how micro- and nanoplastics are distributed across soil, water, air, sediments, and living organisms worldwide. Researchers highlighted that while plastic particles accumulate extensively throughout the environment, the long-term transport, fate, and health impacts of this pollution remain poorly understood. The study calls for more standardized research methods and coordinated global efforts to address the growing challenge of plastic particle contamination.
A critical review on occurrence, distribution, environmental impacts and biodegradation of microplastics
This review provides a broad overview of microplastic pollution, covering where these particles come from, how they spread through terrestrial and aquatic environments, and their effects on ecosystems. Researchers found that microplastics are now present in virtually every environment studied worldwide, from deep oceans to mountain soils. The study highlights biodegradation by microorganisms as a promising but still underdeveloped approach for addressing microplastic contamination.
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.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea
This book covers a broad range of topics on microplastic pollution, including environmental impacts, detection methods, and potential solutions presented at an international conference. It offers a comprehensive overview of the state of microplastics research and policy as of the time of publication.
Micro and Nanoplastics in Soil
This book provides a comprehensive review of the current state of knowledge on microplastics in soils, covering their sources, distribution, and interactions with plants grown in contaminated soil environments.
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.
The Environmental Fate of Microplastics
This review examines the environmental fate of microplastics as a class of micropollutants, tracing how they enter soils, lakes, oceans, and rivers and how their persistence makes them particularly difficult to address.
Research progresses and prospects of microplasticsin the environment
This review summarised research progress on microplastic detection, sources, distribution, and transport across marine, freshwater, soil, atmospheric, and biological environments, as well as microplastics' role as vectors for co-contaminants. The authors discussed prospects for future research including standardised monitoring methods, ecological risk assessment, and policy implications for microplastic pollution management.