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ClearIntegrating STEM Curriculum Across the Schools' Learning Environment to Reflect & Impact Life Practices
This paper is not about microplastics. It discusses integrating STEM curriculum across school environments to promote sustainability education and critical thinking, referencing UN Sustainable Development Goals. While it mentions environmental challenges broadly, the paper focuses on educational pedagogy rather than microplastic pollution or environmental contamination research.
Challenges with microplastic pollution in the regime of UN sustainable development goals
Researchers reviewed the global challenge of microplastic pollution through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting how microplastics enter aquatic, terrestrial, and human health systems and how current international frameworks fall short of managing them. The review emphasizes that microplastics can carry and concentrate harmful chemicals like persistent organic pollutants, amplifying their risks throughout the food chain.
Emerging threat of microplastics across environmental matrices encompassing sources ecotoxicological effects and management strategies within the framework of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This review synthesizes current knowledge on microplastic sources, environmental distribution, and ecotoxicological impacts across various environmental matrices, framed within the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The study highlights how microplastics accumulate across ecosystems and affect organisms at all trophic levels through ingestion and chemical exposure, while identifying management strategies aligned with global sustainability targets.
High School Sustainable and Green Chemistry: Historical–Epistemological and Pedagogical Considerations
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a chemistry education paper discussing how to better integrate sustainable and green chemistry into high school curricula, tracing the history of the Science, Technology, and Society movement and advocating for systems thinking approaches.
Plastics and Microplastic in the Cosmetic Industry: Aggregating Sustainable Actions Aimed at Alignment and Interaction with UN Sustainable Development Goals
This review examined how the cosmetics industry uses microplastics and petroleum-derived polymers in product formulations and packaging, and assessed industry efforts to align with UN Sustainable Development Goals. Regulatory pressure and bioeconomy policies are accelerating substitution of synthetic microplastics with bio-based alternatives.
Sustainable Development Issues in Chemistry Learning as Educational for Sustainable Development Implementation: A Systematic Literature Review
This systematic literature review synthesized research on integrating sustainable development issues into chemistry education. While not directly about microplastics, it identified microplastic pollution as one of the sustainability topics being incorporated into chemistry curricula to help students understand real-world environmental challenges.
Advanced biotechnological tools towards achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) for mitigation of microplastics from environments: a review
This review examines how advanced biotechnological tools—including synthetic biology, enzyme engineering, and omics approaches—can contribute to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals related to clean water, reduced pollution, and sustainable production and consumption.
Biology in the 21st-Century: Transformation in biology science and education in supporting the sustainable development goals
This literature review examines how "New Biology" - the integration of biology with data science, engineering, and sustainability science - can contribute to achieving multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals including zero hunger, clean water, and good health. The study is relevant to microplastics research as it highlights how interdisciplinary biological sciences are increasingly needed to address environmental pollution and its health consequences.
Water Resources and Sustainable Development
This editorial introduces a collection of research on water resources and sustainable development, covering water quality, human impacts on water systems, and new management technologies. While not focused on microplastics specifically, it underscores the broader challenge of keeping water clean and safe as pollution increases. The issues raised are directly relevant to microplastic contamination, which is an emerging threat to water quality worldwide.
Micro Plastic Pollution in South Asia: The Impact of Plastic Pollution over the Unsustainable Development Goals
This review examines microplastic pollution across South Asian countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, finding that rapid urbanization and poor plastic waste management are driving widespread contamination of freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems, with significant implications for sustainable development goals.
Advances in green chemistry and engineering
This editorial introduces a collection of research on green chemistry and engineering, fields that aim to make chemical production safer for the environment and human health. While not specifically about microplastics, green chemistry principles are directly relevant to developing less toxic plastics, biodegradable alternatives, and cleaner manufacturing processes. The collection highlights the role of sustainable chemistry in achieving environmental protection goals.
Exploring Sustainable Development Goal Research Trajectories in Small Island Developing States
This study maps research trends in small island developing states and their alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, finding that environmental sustainability and ocean health receive the most attention. While not focused specifically on microplastics, it highlights that small island nations face outsized environmental pressures including marine pollution that can affect local food systems and human health.
Algae-Driven Transition from Oil to Renewable Alternatives: Policy for Scale and Sustainability
This paper is not directly about microplastics; it is a policy report evaluating algae cultivation as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels for producing plastics and chemicals, focused on scaling algae-based biorefineries to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Convergence of tissue engineering and sustainable development goals
This review explores how tissue engineering is aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, covering biomaterials and technologies like bioprinting and electrospinning. While not focused on microplastics, the review discusses the use of synthetic polymers in medical implants and devices, which raises questions about whether these materials could release micro or nanoplastics inside the body over time. The push for more sustainable, biodegradable biomaterials could help reduce this potential source of internal microplastic exposure.
Abordando la contaminación plástica: análisis y perspectivas del inicio de las negociaciones hacia un acuerdo global vinculante
This Spanish-language paper analyzes the early negotiations toward a global binding agreement on plastic pollution, placing them in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Microplastic contamination of terrestrial and marine ecosystems is a central concern driving the push for an international plastics treaty.
Some insights on traditional and novel approaches in microbial biotechnology that contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
This editorial highlights diverse ways microbial biotechnology contributes to sustainable development goals, discussing both traditional and novel approaches in areas including pollution remediation, food security, and resource recovery.
Issue Information
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a journal issue-information page for Land Degradation & Development describing the scope of that publication.
Integrating sustainability in dentistry: a pathway towards achieving the UN 2030 agenda
This article explores how sustainable practices in dentistry can reduce waste and environmental impact, in line with the UN's 2030 sustainability goals. While not directly about microplastics, the dental industry generates significant plastic waste from single-use items and disposable materials that can break down into microplastics. The push for greener dental materials and waste reduction could help decrease one source of microplastic pollution entering the environment.
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.
The Ephemeral Term “Sustainable Development” in Current EU Policies
Not relevant to microplastics — this policy analysis paper examines how the term 'sustainable development' is used inconsistently and with contradictory meanings across current European Union policies, using textual and conceptual review methods.
Global challenges in microplastics: From fundamental understanding to advanced degradations toward sustainable strategies
This review examined global challenges in microplastic research — from environmental entry pathways and fate to human health impacts — and discussed potential degradation strategies, concluding that a combination of photocatalysis, biodegradation, and policy measures will be needed for sustainable management.
Research on Soil Management and Conservation
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a brief editorial introduction to a journal special issue on soil management and conservation, with no substantive content about microplastic pollution.
Plastic pollution- Think and act now!
This paper is not substantively about microplastics — it is a very brief editorial or opinion piece calling for action on plastic pollution with no scientific content.
Sustainable Development Goals and microplastics in seafood: a theoretical-reflective study
This theoretical review examined the relationship between microplastic contamination of seafood and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, arguing that strengthening water pollution policies and educating health professionals about microplastic risks are necessary to achieve SDG targets.