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Microplastics in the ecosystems: Impacts on environmental sustainability

This review examines the widespread contamination of ecosystems by microplastics, discussing how MPs from agricultural inputs and plastic containers accumulate in soil, water, and organisms, posing significant ecological and health risks.

2025 Journal of Applied Biology & Biotechnology
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Microplastics and Nanoplastics in the Environment: Sources, Toxicity, and Ecological Implications

This review summarized the sources, environmental distribution, toxicological effects, and ecological impacts of microplastics and nanoplastics, drawing on two decades of research across marine, freshwater, soil, and atmospheric environments. The paper highlighted the global scale of MNP contamination and the urgent need for policy action to reduce plastic pollution.

2025 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Ecotoxicological perspectives of microplastics

This review summarized the ecotoxicological effects of microplastics across aquatic and terrestrial organisms, covering the global scale of plastic production and the chronic harm MPs cause to ecosystems. The paper called for greater research standardization and policy intervention to address the escalating contamination.

2025
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Microplastics as Emerging Environmental Contaminants: Sources, Distribution and Ecological Implications

This review examines the sources, environmental distribution, and ecological implications of microplastics, which are now found across aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments worldwide. The study discusses how these persistent plastic fragments can enter food webs and highlights priorities for future monitoring, risk assessment, and pollution mitigation efforts.

2026 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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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.

2025 Oriental Journal Of Chemistry
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Microplastics: Environmental Presence and Ecological Impact

This review examined the sources, environmental distribution, ecological impacts, and current detection and removal advances for microplastic pollution across marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems. It synthesized the state of knowledge on MP effects on biodiversity, food chains, and human health, and highlighted gaps in remediation technology.

2024 Premier journal of environmental science.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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Microplastic in the Marine Environment

This review examines the presence, sources, distribution, and ecological effects of microplastics in marine environments, arguing that the pervasive use of plastics in modern society and poor waste management have made ocean microplastic pollution a critical global issue.

2023 5 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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Microplastics Pollution

This review summarizes the current state of knowledge about microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems, covering sources, distribution, and ecological impacts. The study emphasizes that plastics are virtually indestructible in the environment and that microplastics are now ubiquitous in ocean food chains.

2020 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks
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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.

2018 Revista Virtual de Química 64 citations
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Review on invasion of microplastic in our ecosystem and implications

This review examines microplastic pollution across aquatic, terrestrial, airborne, and biological environments, concluding that microplastics travel across national boundaries and media, requiring global collective action beyond individual national waste reduction policies.

2022 Science Progress 23 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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Microplastics as Emerging Environmental Contaminants: Sources, Distribution and Ecological Implications

This review summarizes current knowledge on microplastics as globally distributed environmental contaminants, covering their sources, transport pathways, and ecological impacts. Researchers highlight that these plastic fragments smaller than 5 mm are now detected in aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments and can enter food webs, while noting significant research gaps in monitoring and risk assessment.

2026 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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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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Microplastics in Aquatic Environments

This review examined microplastics as ubiquitous pollutants in aquatic environments, tracing their origins in large-scale plastic production and inadequate waste management systems and synthesizing evidence on their distribution, ecological impacts, and implications for global water quality.

2022 1 citations
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Microplastics Contamination in the Environment: An Ecotoxicological Concern

This review examines the sources, distribution, and toxic effects of microplastics across terrestrial and aquatic environments. The authors summarize evidence that microplastics harm a wide range of organisms by causing physical injury, delivering chemical pollutants, and disrupting ecosystem processes.

2021 International Journal of Zoological Investigations 3 citations
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Characterization and regulation of microplastic pollution for protecting planetary and human health

This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution, covering sources, environmental distribution, detection methods, health effects, and regulatory efforts. Researchers found that microplastics are now present in virtually every environment on Earth, from deep oceans to remote mountain regions, and can carry harmful chemicals and pathogens. The study calls for coordinated global action to reduce plastic production, improve waste management, and establish health-based exposure limits.

2022 Environmental Pollution 122 citations
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Microplastics: Environmental Issues and Their Management

This review covers the environmental hazards of microplastics, their accumulation in soils, water bodies, and living organisms, and management strategies for reducing plastic waste. Global plastic production has grown from 2 million tons in 1950 to 380 million tons annually, with much ending up as persistent environmental pollution.

2022 1 citations