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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.

2024 Ecological Sciences
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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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Microplastics in ecosystems: their implications and mitigation pathways

This review examined the implications of microplastic pollution across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and outlined mitigation pathways to address this emerging environmental threat.

2022 Environmental Science Advances 143 citations
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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.

2023 4 citations
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Overview of microplastics in the environment: type, source, potential effects and removal strategies

This review examines microplastic types, sources, and health effects across land and marine environments, discussing remediation technologies and emphasizing the need for international cooperation to address this global pollution challenge.

2022 Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering 25 citations
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Micro and nanoplastics pollution: A review on global concern and its impacts on ecosystems

This review summarizes the current understanding of micro and nanoplastic pollution globally, covering their sources, movement through ecosystems, and risks to both environmental and human health. The evidence shows that these tiny particles alter soil and sediment properties, disrupt nutrient cycles, and pose potential climate hazards. The authors emphasize that more research is needed on how microplastics move through food chains and affect human health, particularly through contaminated food and water.

2024 Land Degradation and Development 13 citations
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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.

2025
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Microplastics in Environment and Effects on Biota

This review summarizes how microplastics form from plastic breakdown in nature or are manufactured at small sizes, spread across ecosystems, and harm organisms from microbes to larger animals. It emphasizes that poor plastic waste management is driving a growing global pollution crisis with broad ecological consequences.

2020 Turkish Journal of Water Science and Management 3 citations
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The impact of microplastic pollution on human health - current issues

This review covers the sources, distribution, and ecological implications of microplastics in terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments, synthesizing existing knowledge and research gaps. It finds that MPs are a global contaminant threatening biodiversity and human health through chemical leaching, endocrine disruption, and physical harm to organisms at multiple trophic levels.

2025 Ecological Questions
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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.

2017 Environment International 2517 citations
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Emerging microplastic contamination in ecosystem: An urge for environmental sustainability

This review summarized the sources, environmental distribution, and ecological effects of microplastics, emphasizing the exponential increase in plastic production and waste mismanagement driving MP accumulation across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The authors called for urgent policy measures to reduce single-use plastic production and improve waste infrastructure globally.

2022 Journal of Applied Biology & Biotechnology 11 citations
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Environmental emission, fate and transformation of microplastics in biotic and abiotic compartments: Global status, recent advances and future perspectives

This global review synthesizes knowledge on the emission, environmental fate, and transformation of microplastics across biotic and abiotic compartments, identifying key research gaps and future priorities for understanding the full plastic pollution lifecycle.

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 73 citations
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A Review on Microplastics – An Indelible Ubiquitous Pollutant

This review summarizes evidence that microplastics are ubiquitous and persistent pollutants distributed across marine, freshwater, atmospheric, and terrestrial environments, covering sources, transport pathways, ecological effects, and human health implications. The authors emphasize that microplastic contamination now represents a permanent feature of global ecosystems requiring urgent regulatory response.

2022 Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry 52 citations
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Microplastics Formation, Distribution, Impact, and Mitigation Strategy: A Review

This review covers the formation, environmental distribution, ecological impacts, and mitigation strategies for microplastics, synthesizing the global evidence base on how microplastic pollution spreads through air, water, and soil and harms living organisms.

2025 SEAS (Sustainable Environment Agricultural Science)
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Current research trends on micro- and nano-plastics as an emerging threat to global environment: A review.

This review summarizes the current knowledge on micro- and nanoplastics as emerging global pollutants, covering their distribution across terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments, their persistence, and the health risks from their chemical additives. It identifies key research gaps in understanding how MNPs move between environmental compartments and accumulate in living organisms.

2021 Journal of hazardous materials
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Microplastics in multi-environmental compartments: Research advances, media, and global management scenarios

This review summarizes the current state of microplastic pollution across air, water, soil, and living organisms worldwide. Microplastics have been found in breast milk, polar ice, and mountain lakes, and exposure has been linked to inflammation, immune disruption, and neurotoxicity. The review highlights that while detection methods are improving, there is still no unified global strategy for managing microplastic pollution and its effects on human health.

2024 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 15 citations
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Global Risks of Microplastics to Ecosystem and Human Health: An Emerging Environmental Disaster

This review characterizes microplastic contamination as an emerging environmental disaster, summarizing its negative impacts across multiple levels of biological organization and the environments where research has been most active. The authors call for accelerated scientific and regulatory attention.

2024 Microplastics
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Microplastics in aquatic ecosystems: Detection, source tracing, and sustainable management strategies

This review paper summarizes what we know about microplastics in water environments, including how they spread, how to detect them, and how to manage the problem. It highlights that microplastics can carry toxic substances and calls for stronger global policies and new cleanup methods like biodegradation to protect ecosystems and human health.

2025 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 15 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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Microplastics in ecosystems: ecotoxicological threats and strategies for mitigation and governance

This review provides a broad assessment of microplastic pollution across ecosystems, covering sources, detection methods, ecological impacts, and cleanup strategies. The study highlights recent advances including AI-enhanced detection tools and microbe-based degradation approaches, and proposes a roadmap for working toward microplastic-free environments through coordinated scientific and policy action.

2025 Frontiers in Marine Science 2 citations