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ClearMicroplastics 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.
Microbial strategies for effective microplastics biodegradation: Insights and innovations in environmental remediation
This review explores how bacteria and their enzymes can break down microplastics through oxidative degradation, offering a biological approach to cleaning up plastic pollution. The paper highlights innovative pretreatment methods that make plastics more accessible to microbial breakdown and positions microbial strategies as a promising frontline solution for removing microplastics from ecosystems before they can enter the food chain and affect human health.
Microplastics toxicology and bioremediation strategies for a sustainable future: a comprehensive review
This comprehensive review covers the sources, toxicity, and bioremediation strategies for microplastic pollution. Researchers summarized how microplastics enter organisms through contaminated food and water and can cause harmful effects at the cellular level. The study highlights promising biological approaches for breaking down microplastics, including enzyme-based methods and microbial degradation, as potential paths toward a more sustainable solution.
Systematic Assessment of Mechanisms, Developments, Innovative Solutions, and Future Perspectives of Microplastics and Ecotoxicity – A Review
This comprehensive review summarizes current knowledge about how microplastics form, spread through the environment, and affect living organisms at every level of the food chain. It covers the toxic effects of microplastics on cells, organs, and whole organisms, including inflammation, oxidative stress, and hormone disruption. The review also evaluates emerging methods for breaking down microplastics, concluding that a combination of prevention, cleanup, and policy changes is needed to address this growing health threat.
Microplastics as vectors of other contaminants: Analytical determination techniques and remediation methods
This review examines how microplastics act as carriers for other pollutants, absorbing harmful organic and inorganic chemicals from the environment. It covers the latest methods for detecting and identifying microplastics in different settings, as well as promising cleanup approaches like microbial degradation. The findings underscore that microplastics may be more dangerous than the plastic itself because of the toxic hitchhikers they carry into the food chain and water supply.
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.
Critical review on unveiling the toxic and recalcitrant effects of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems and their degradation by microbes
This review provides a comprehensive look at how microplastics accumulate in aquatic ecosystems and their toxic effects on marine organisms throughout the food chain. Researchers also examine the potential of bacteria, fungi, and algae to break down microplastics through biodegradation, including advances in genetic engineering to enhance this process. The study underscores both the severity of microplastic pollution and the emerging biological strategies that could help address it.
Microplastics Pollution and its Remediation
This publication reviews the growing problem of microplastic pollution in the environment and explores biological and technological strategies for remediation, including microbial degradation and engineered solutions. It highlights the urgent need for practical cleanup approaches as microplastics continue to accumulate across ecosystems worldwide.
Bioremediation of microplastic pollution: A systematic review on mechanism, analytical methods, innovations, and omics approaches
Researchers systematically reviewed how bacteria, fungi, and algae can break down microplastics through enzymes and biofilms, and how cutting-edge tools like genomics and genetically engineered microbes are improving biodegradation efficiency. While microbial bioremediation is a promising sustainable approach to microplastic pollution, challenges around scalability and varying degradation rates in real environments still need to be overcome.
Microplastic pollution: Understanding microbial degradation and strategies for pollutant reduction
This review explores how microplastics form, spread through ecosystems, and affect microbial communities, then examines how certain microorganisms can actually break down these plastic particles. Understanding microbial degradation of microplastics could lead to biotechnology solutions that reduce the amount of plastic pollution entering the food chain and ultimately the human body.
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.
Health implications of microplastic exposure and sustainable solutions
This review explores the various pathways by which microplastics contaminate aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems through human activities, and how they accumulate in the food chain. Researchers summarize the health implications of microplastic exposure through mechanisms like oxidative stress, gut microbiome disruption, and inflammation. The study emphasizes the need for standardized detection methods and stronger regulatory frameworks to address microplastic contamination in the human food supply.
The threat of microplastics and microbial degradation potential; a current perspective
This review covers the growing threat of microplastics in marine environments, where they enter the food chain and can transfer to humans along with pathogenic organisms, causing various toxic effects. The paper also explores how bacteria and fungi found in ocean environments could be harnessed to biodegrade different types of plastics as a future strategy for reducing microplastic pollution.
Microplastics in Aquatic Environments: Sources, Ecotoxicity, Detection & Remediation
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic sources, ecotoxicity, detection methods, and remediation strategies in aquatic environments. Researchers found that microplastics act as carriers for toxic chemicals and pose threats to both marine and freshwater ecosystems as well as human health through drinking water exposure. The study highlights the need for improved detection technologies and effective remediation approaches to address this growing environmental challenge.
Role of Microbes in Microplastic Removal and Its Effect on Human Health
This review examines the role of microbes in microplastic removal from environmental matrices and food systems, covering both degradation pathways and the health implications of microplastic-microbiome interactions for humans and other organisms.
Microplastics as carriers of toxic pollutants: Source, transport, and toxicological effects
This review summarizes how microplastics absorb and carry toxic pollutants like persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals, and antibiotics through the environment, concentrating these harmful chemicals as they move through ecosystems. When organisms ingest these contaminated particles, the pollutants can build up in the food chain and eventually reach humans, making microplastics not just a physical hazard but also a chemical delivery system.
Microplastics as an emerging menace to environment: Insights into their uptake, prevalence, fate, and sustainable solutions
This review provides a comprehensive look at how microplastics enter the environment, accumulate in living organisms, and move through food chains. The paper covers sources, transport mechanisms, and the health implications of microplastic exposure for both wildlife and humans. The authors also discuss emerging solutions including biodegradable alternatives and advanced filtration technologies.
Microplastics in marine and aquatic habitats: sources, impact, and sustainable remediation approaches
This review examined the sources, environmental impact, and remediation approaches for microplastics in marine and aquatic habitats. Researchers found that microplastics bind to toxic chemicals and metals, acting as vectors that introduce these substances into living organisms through the food chain. The study highlights several sustainable remediation technologies and emphasizes the need for integrated approaches to address microplastic contamination in aquatic environments.
Insight into microplastics in the aquatic ecosystem: Properties, sources, threats and mitigation strategies
This review summarizes how microplastics contaminate aquatic ecosystems through various pathways, where they can absorb other toxic chemicals and become even more harmful. The findings are relevant to human health because microplastics in fish and shellfish from contaminated waters can carry these concentrated pollutants into our diets.
Ecotoxicity of microplastic wastes and their sustainable management: A review
This review summarizes how microplastics damage ecosystems when organisms ingest them and absorb the toxic chemicals they carry, and examines microbial remediation as an emerging solution. Bacteria and fungi that can break down plastics offer a more environmentally friendly approach to reducing microplastic pollution, which is important because up to 14 million tons of plastic waste enters the oceans each year and enters the human food chain.
Microplastics and associated contaminants in the aquatic environment: A review on their ecotoxicological effects, trophic transfer, and potential impacts to human health
This review examines how microplastics and the chemical contaminants they carry move through aquatic food chains from small organisms up to larger predators. Researchers found that microplastics can transfer toxic additives and absorbed pollutants to organisms that ingest them, with potential implications for seafood safety and ultimately human health.
A critical review of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems: Degradation mechanisms and removing strategies
This review summarizes methods for removing microplastics from water, including physical filtering, chemical treatments, and biological breakdown by bacteria, fungi, and enzymes. Effective removal of microplastics from water is important for human health because these tiny particles are eaten by fish and other seafood, eventually entering the human food chain.
Review of Recent Advances in Microplastic Ecological Risk Assessment: From Problem Formulation to Risk Characterization
This review of existing research shows that tiny plastic particles called microplastics are contaminating our environment and food chain, carrying harmful chemicals and pollutants that can end up in our bodies. Scientists still don't fully understand how dangerous these microplastics are to human health or how they move through the food we eat, from fish to drinking water. The researchers say we need better methods to study these risks so we can protect people and create policies to reduce plastic pollution.
Sources and Impacts of Microplastics in Aquatic Environment and Remediation Strategies
This review covers sources of microplastics in aquatic environments (degraded plastics, industrial processes, personal care products, textiles), their ecological and health impacts, and remediation strategies including filtration, bioremediation, and advanced oxidation processes.