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Microplastics as an Emerging Potential Threat: Toxicity, Life Cycle Assessment, and Management

This review covers the full life cycle of microplastics, from how they enter the environment to their toxic effects on living organisms. Microplastics accumulate in aquatic and land ecosystems, where they can harm organisms by causing oxidative stress, disrupting hormones, and damaging organs. The authors emphasize that with global plastic production still rising, better waste management and recycling methods are urgently needed to reduce human and environmental exposure.

2024 Toxics 12 citations
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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.

2024 Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & Management 8 citations
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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.

2023 Environmental Research 49 citations
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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.

2026 Environmental Sciences Europe
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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.

2025 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews 2 citations
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Microplastics, their effects on ecosystems, and general strategies for mitigation of microplastics: A review of recent developments, challenges, and future prospects

This review covers the harmful effects of microplastics on human health, animals, and ecosystems, noting that people face risks including inflammation, toxic effects, and potential chronic disease from exposure. The paper also examines current strategies to reduce microplastic pollution, including better waste management and development of sustainable materials to replace conventional plastics.

2025 Environmental Pollution and Management 19 citations
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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.

2023 Water 31 citations
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Occurrence, impact, toxicity, and degradation methods of microplastics in environment—a review

This review summarizes current knowledge about microplastic pollution, covering where these particles come from, how they affect ecosystems, their toxic effects on organisms, and methods for breaking them down. Researchers found that microplastics are pervasive across aquatic and terrestrial environments and can harm organisms through ingestion, choking, and chemical exposure. The study examines physical, chemical, and biological degradation methods as potential tools for addressing microplastic contamination.

2022 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 131 citations
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Pollution to Solution: Understanding and Addressing Microplastic Contamination in the Environment

This review synthesizes current knowledge on how microplastics and nanoplastics are distributed across freshwater and marine environments, how they interact with and are taken up by aquatic organisms, and what removal technologies show the most promise. It covers the full lifecycle from macroplastic fragmentation to nano-scale particles, and surveys physical, chemical, and biological treatment methods. The review provides a useful overview for researchers and environmental managers looking to understand the scope of the microplastic problem and identify where interventions are most needed.

2026 Environmental Quality Management
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Microplastics: Holistic overview of source, identification, interaction, health and environmental implications and strategies of abatement

This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic sources, identification methods, interactions with other pollutants, and impacts on the environment and human health. Microplastics are now found in virtually every ecosystem and enter the food chain through multiple routes, making them a global pollution crisis that requires urgent research and policy action.

2020 Acta Chemica Malaysia 7 citations
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Microplastics: a global threat to life and living

This comprehensive review summarizes what we know about microplastics, covering how they act in the environment, how they break down, and how scientists detect them. Microplastics serve as carriers for toxic chemicals and can harm both marine and land-based ecosystems at multiple levels. The review emphasizes that while some microorganisms can break down plastics, current biodegradation methods are far too slow to keep up with the scale of pollution.

2025 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 7 citations
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Microplastics in marine ecosystems: Sources, effects, and mitigation strategies

This review examines the sources, environmental pathways, ecological impacts across trophic levels, and mitigation strategies for microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems, synthesizing current evidence on biological harm and evaluating policy frameworks, technological solutions, and individual behavioral changes aimed at reducing marine microplastic loads.

2022 International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies 1 citations
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A critical review of the ecotoxic effects of microplastics on aquatic, soil and atmospheric ecosystems and current research challenges

This review summarizes how microplastics cause toxic effects across water, soil, and air ecosystems by triggering oxidative stress, inflammation, and disrupting metabolic pathways in exposed organisms. The research highlights that while we know microplastics cause harm at the cellular level, there are still major gaps in understanding exactly how much exposure is dangerous for human health.

2025 Environmental Research 11 citations
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Microplastics and Their Impacts on Organisms and Trophic Chains

This review synthesizes current knowledge on microplastic pollution, examining the mechanisms by which microplastics affect organisms at multiple levels of biological organization and how plastic particles transfer through trophic chains, accumulating and potentially magnifying in concentration up the food web. Researchers highlight evidence for physical, chemical, and microbial impacts on organisms ranging from invertebrates to mammals, including humans, and identify priority areas for future ecotoxicological research.

2022 Water 8 citations
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Occurrence, distribution, characteristics, toxicity, human health effects and removal techniques of Microplastic: A Review

This review surveys the occurrence, distribution, toxicity, and health effects of microplastics across environmental compartments, examining how these particles enter ecosystems and food chains and evaluating available removal and mitigation techniques.

2023 International Journal of Advanced Chemistry Research 1 citations
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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.

2026 Microplastics
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Microplastic Pollution in Aquatic Ecosystems: Environmental Behaviour, Biological Impacts, and Public Health Implications- A Comprehensive Review

This review paper summarizes existing research showing that tiny plastic particles called microplastics are now found throughout our water systems and food chain, including in seafood and drinking water that people consume. The research shows these particles can cause inflammation and disrupt hormones in the body, but scientists still need better methods to study long-term health effects. Understanding microplastic pollution is important because it affects the safety of our food and water supply.

2026 UTTAR PRADESH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
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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.

2024 Journal of Environmental Management 101 citations
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Unveiling the complex impact of microplastics on environmental health, ecosystems, and humans

This comprehensive review consolidates current knowledge on microplastic pollution across marine, freshwater, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments. Researchers examined sources, transport pathways, impacts on living organisms, sampling techniques, and regulatory challenges, highlighting significant gaps in understanding the full scope of microplastic effects on ecosystems and human well-being.

2026 Journal of Environmental Management
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The 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.

2024 Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 33 citations