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ClearMitigation measures to avert the impacts of plastics and microplastics in the marine environment (a review)
This review examines the growing problem of plastic and microplastic pollution in marine environments and evaluates various mitigation strategies. The authors discuss approaches including reducing plastic production, improving waste management, developing biodegradable alternatives, and implementing cleanup technologies. The study emphasizes that a combination of prevention, policy intervention, and innovative solutions is needed to address the scale of marine plastic contamination.
The Problem of Plastic Waste Pollution in the World Ocean
This review examines plastic waste as the dominant and most persistent component of marine litter -- representing at least 85% of total marine debris -- summarizing lethal and sublethal effects on marine megafauna, invertebrates, and plankton, and discussing sources, transport pathways, and the policy landscape for reducing ocean plastic pollution.
Evaluating Solutions to Marine Plastic Pollution
This review evaluates different approaches to tackling ocean plastic pollution, from cleanup technologies to policy measures and material alternatives. The authors note that millions of tons of plastic float in the oceans, forming large accumulations, and that microplastics entering the food chain pose risks to human health. The review emphasizes that no single solution will work alone and that combining prevention, cleanup, and better waste management is essential.
Plastic Debris and the Marine Environment: Integrating Transformational Strategies in Achieving a Sustainable Environment
This review examines the sources, environmental pathways, and ecological impacts of marine plastic debris, and discusses transformational strategies including policy intervention, improved waste management, and alternative materials to achieve sustainable ocean management.
Unravelling the Waves: Navigating Microplastics Pollution in the Marine Realm and Crafting Remedial Solutions
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in marine environments, covering prevalence, persistence, ecological impacts, and remediation solutions. The authors assess current mitigation approaches and highlight the need for integrated policy, improved monitoring, and technological innovation to address the growing threat to ocean health.
Microplastics and its Impact on Oceanic Environment
This review examines the impact of microplastics on oceanic ecosystems, covering the mechanisms by which they harm aquatic life through ingestion and entanglement, and discusses potential strategies for reducing contamination. It emphasizes that continuous plastic production combined with poor waste management is driving an escalating ocean pollution crisis.
Plastic Pollution in Oceans: a Review
This review examines plastic pollution in the world's oceans, covering sources, distribution pathways, ecological impacts, and the current state of scientific understanding of marine plastic contamination.
An Overview of the Current Trends in Marine Plastic Litter Management for a Sustainable Development
This review summarizes current knowledge about marine plastic litter, from its land-based origins to its distribution across ocean environments, and evaluates recovery and recycling strategies. Researchers found that while technologies for collecting and recycling marine plastics are advancing, significant economic and logistical barriers remain. The study emphasizes that a circular economy approach, combining prevention, collection, and material recovery, is essential for addressing ocean plastic pollution.
Marine Litter: Solutions for a Major Environmental Problem
This paper reviews the sources, distribution, and impacts of marine litter — primarily plastics — on beaches and oceans, and surveys proposed solutions ranging from improved waste management to policy interventions and cleanup technologies. It provides a broad overview of the challenge of reducing plastic pollution at a global scale.
Towards a Sustainable Ocean Ecosystem: Innovations in Plastic Pollution Mitigation, Policy Collaborations, and Technological Advancements
This review examined innovations in ocean plastic pollution mitigation, including clean-up technologies, international policy collaborations, and engineering advances, synthesizing the current state of efforts to address the global plastic waste crisis in marine environments.
Oceanic pollution; A threat to life
This brief overview discusses multiple forms of ocean pollution, including plastic debris, and their threats to marine ecosystems. The author calls for urgent global action to prevent further degradation of ocean health.
Recycling and Management of Microplastic Waste
This review examines recycling and management strategies for plastic waste, describing the technical and economic challenges of reducing plastic pollution and the remediation approaches that have been attempted to address microplastic accumulation in the environment.
Explore the Impact of Marine Plastic Pollution and Countermeasures
This paper reviewed the scope of marine plastic pollution, its distribution across ocean ecosystems, and its socioeconomic effects on coastal communities, finding that existing international agreements and waste management efforts remain insufficient to address the scale of the problem.
Microplastic pollution in the marine environment: A review
This review covers the full scope of microplastic pollution in the ocean, from sources and distribution to effects on marine life and potential solutions. Microplastics have been found in marine organisms at every level of the food chain, raising concerns about human exposure through seafood. The authors emphasize that global plastic production continues to rise, making better waste management and policy action urgent.
Plastic Pollution: Challenges and Innovative Solutions
This review examines the multifaceted challenges of plastic pollution and surveys innovative solutions spanning material design, waste management, and remediation technologies. The paper synthesises current research on microplastic sources, environmental persistence, and emerging approaches to reducing plastic releases into ecosystems.
Marine litter: how to monitor, reduce and prevent ocean debris. Focus on plastics and microplastics.
This report reviewed the growing problem of plastic pollution in the oceans and the policy landscape for addressing it, emphasizing that production, use, and end-of-life management all require reform. It frames plastic pollution as a systemic challenge requiring coordinated international action rather than single-issue solutions.
Ocean plastics: environmental implications and potential routes for mitigation – a perspective
This review provides an overview of ocean plastic pollution, covering the major sources of both micro and macro plastics and how they distribute across marine environments. The study discusses environmental effects on marine life and evaluates potential solutions including biodegradable alternatives, improved waste management, and international policy efforts to reduce plastic entering the oceans.
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.
Impacts of plastic pollution in the oceans on marine species, biodiversity and ecosystems
This comprehensive report documented the extensive impacts of plastic pollution on marine species, biodiversity, and ecosystems worldwide, revealing a rapidly worsening situation that demands immediate international action to protect ocean health.
Pervasive Pollution Problems Caused by Plastics and its Degradation
This review discusses the pervasive environmental pollution caused by plastics and their degradation products, arguing that plastic contamination now affects air, water, food, and all living organisms and requires urgent global action to reduce production and improve waste management.
Plastic pollutions in the ocean: their sources, causes, effects and control measures
This review provides a broad overview of plastic pollution in the ocean, covering its sources, environmental impacts, and effects on marine wildlife and human health. Researchers noted that ocean plastic concentrations can reach hundreds of thousands of pieces per square kilometer, with ingestion and entanglement affecting hundreds of marine species. The study calls for stronger international regulations and improved waste management to curb the growing tide of ocean plastic.
Impact and Solution of Marine Plastic Pollution: A Review
This review examines the sources, distribution, and ecological impacts of marine plastic pollution, classifying accumulated ocean plastics into five size categories from mega- to nano-scale. The paper discusses how microplastics enter food webs through ingestion by marine animals and surveys proposed mitigation strategies to address this critical anthropogenic threat.
Plastic waste in the marine environment: A review of sources, occurrence and effects
This review covered the sources, occurrence, and ecological effects of plastic waste in the marine environment, synthesizing evidence on how plastic pollution enters the ocean, where it accumulates, and what harm it causes to marine life.
Plastic pollution of the world’s seas and oceans as a contemporary challenge in ocean governance
This paper frames plastic pollution of the world's seas and oceans as a defining contemporary challenge in ocean stewardship, reviewing the scale of the problem and arguing for urgent policy and management responses.