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ClearMicroplastics 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.
Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions
This review synthesized research on the distribution and significance of microplastics across the marine environment, covering sources, transport pathways, ecological interactions, and the state of knowledge on biological and chemical effects.
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 in Marine Ecosystem
This book addresses microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems including sources, environmental fate, and impacts on marine life and human health, along with future solutions such as bacterial biodegradation, membrane technology, and bioengineered microbes.
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.
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.
Microplastics in Environment
This book provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution — covering where microplastics come from, how they spread through oceans, soils, and indoor air, the challenges of detecting them, and strategies for removing or reducing them. It serves as a reference for researchers and policymakers working to understand and address one of the most widespread environmental contaminants of our time.
Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review
This review synthesized the state of knowledge on microplastics as marine contaminants, covering their sources, pathways, distribution, biological uptake, and potential ecological and toxicological effects.
Microplastic Pollution: Fate, Sources, Transport and Identification
This review summarizes the sources, fate, transport, and identification methods for microplastics in aquatic and terrestrial environments, highlighting their global distribution across all ecosystems and the growing concern for their impacts on marine life, other organisms, and human health.
Can We Find a Way to Solve Microplastic Pollution?
This review examines sources, environmental distribution, ecological impacts, and potential mitigation strategies for microplastic pollution across terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. The authors survey evidence of harm to marine wildlife including seabirds, fish, and sea turtles through ingestion and entanglement, and assess emerging technological and regulatory approaches to reducing global microplastic contamination.
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 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.
Micro Plastic Contamination: A Comprehensive Review of Risks and Sustainable Solutions
This comprehensive review examines the sources, environmental fate, ecological impacts, and potential sustainable solutions for microplastic contamination, summarizing evidence for MP effects on aquatic organisms and discussing physical, chemical, and biological strategies to reduce pollution.
Microplastics and Nanoplastics
This overview chapter covers the sources, environmental distribution, and biological effects of microplastics and nanoplastics, situating them within the broader landscape of plastic pollution research. The text provides foundational context for understanding the scope of the microplastic problem.
Toxic 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.
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.
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: 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.
Microplastics: Contaminants of Global Concern in the Anthropocene
This review summarizes the state of knowledge on microplastics as a global contaminant, covering their sources, distribution in different environments, and potential ecological and health effects. It frames microplastics as a defining pollution challenge of the Anthropocene era.
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.
Global environmental problem of microplastics
This paper provides an overview of microplastic pollution as a growing global environmental problem, examining how tiny plastic particles spread through ecosystems worldwide. It highlights the scale of the challenge and the need for coordinated scientific and policy responses.
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.
Microplastics in the Environment
This chapter examines microplastic pollution sources by integrating methods to distinguish natural from anthropogenic origins, providing a comprehensive exploration of microplastic distribution pathways and the analytical approaches used for source identification.