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ClearMicro- 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.
Microplastics in aquatic environment: Challenges and perspectives
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in water environments, covering sources, transport, health effects, detection methods, and control strategies. Microplastics enter waterways from everyday plastic products, industrial discharge, and wastewater treatment plants, where aquatic organisms ingest them and pass them up the food chain. The review highlights the urgent need for better analytical techniques and global policies to reduce microplastic contamination that ultimately reaches human food and drinking water.
Unraveling Microplastics: Sources, Environment and Health Impacts, and Detection Techniques
This research review summarizes what we know about microplastics—tiny pieces of plastic pollution that are now found everywhere in our environment, including inside human bodies. Scientists have found these plastic particles in our water, food, and even our blood, but we still don't fully understand what health problems they might cause. The study shows we need better ways to detect and measure microplastics, plus more research and government action to protect people from this growing pollution problem.
Microplastics: Environmental Ubiquity, Biological Fate, and Human Health Implications
This review summarizes the current understanding of microplastics as a growing global contaminant affecting both ecosystems and human health. Researchers note that microplastics can carry harmful compounds and have been found throughout the environment and in the human body, while global regulatory frameworks remain insufficient. The study calls for enhanced monitoring, stricter regulations, and source-reduction strategies to address the long-term risks of microplastic exposure.
Detection and degradation of microplastics in the environment: a review
This review covers methods for detecting and breaking down microplastics in the environment. Microplastics persist in ecosystems and pose potential risks to both human health and wildlife. The paper highlights the need for better tools and strategies to address this growing pollution problem.
Current status of microplastic pollution and the latest treatment technologies
This review provides a comprehensive overview of global microplastic pollution, covering sources, distribution across water, soil, and air, and potential hazards to human health. Researchers summarized the latest analytical techniques for detecting microplastics and current countermeasures being developed to address the problem. The study highlights that microplastics come from diverse sources and that their small size allows them to enter the body through multiple pathways.
Microplastics: An Emerging and Challenging Research Field
This review examines the current state of microplastic research, covering detection methods, environmental distribution, biological effects, and policy responses. The authors note that while contamination is certain to keep increasing due to slow plastic degradation, there is still much unknown about long-term health and ecological consequences.
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.
Microplastics influencing aquatic environment and human health: A review of source, determination, distribution, removal, degradation, management strategy and future perspective
This review paper provides a broad summary of microplastic pollution in water environments, covering where they come from, how to detect them, how they spread, and how to remove them. The authors emphasize that microplastics persist for extremely long periods in water and can harm both aquatic life and human health, calling for better management strategies worldwide.
Microplastics in water resources: Global pollution circle, possible technological solutions, legislations, and future horizon
This review summarizes the global scope of microplastic contamination in water and sediment, finding levels that vary enormously -- from near zero to thousands of particles per sample. Microplastics absorb other pollutants from their surroundings, potentially concentrating harmful chemicals, and they infiltrate food chains from the smallest organisms upward. The authors call for stronger legislation and a combination of technological innovation, recycling, and public awareness to address this widespread threat to ecosystems and human health.
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.
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.
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.
A review on microplastics: sources, environmental fate, degradation pathways, and analytical identification methods.
This review paper summarizes existing research on tiny plastic particles called microplastics and how scientists detect them in the environment. Microplastics are a growing concern because they contaminate our air, water, and food, potentially affecting human health when we breathe or eat them. The researchers found that new, cheaper detection methods could help us better monitor these plastic particles and understand their impact on our health and environment.
Review of Microplastic Distribution, Toxicity, Analysis Methods, and Removal Technologies
This review provides a broad overview of microplastic pollution, covering where microplastics are found globally, their potential health effects on humans and ecosystems, current analytical detection methods, and available removal technologies. Researchers note that significant gaps remain in understanding the full scope of microplastic toxicity and that no single removal method is fully effective. The study calls for continued development of both monitoring techniques and treatment technologies to address this pervasive environmental contaminant.
Microplastics pollution in water is a threat for human health and the environment (literature review)
This literature review examines the growing problem of microplastic contamination in water bodies and drinking water worldwide. Evidence indicates that microplastics pose concerns for human health both through their physical effects and through the chemicals and microorganisms they can carry, with studies confirming their presence in marine and freshwater environments across multiple countries.
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.
Microplastics Pollution in the Environment: Challenges and Future Prospectives: A Mini-Review
This mini-review summarized the current state of microplastic pollution in the environment, identifying key challenges including ubiquitous distribution, diverse sources, and inadequate removal technologies, while outlining future research and regulatory directions needed to address this global concern.
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.
Recent Trends on Microplastics Pollution and Its Remediation:A Review
This review summarized current knowledge on the ubiquitous presence of microplastics in ecosystems, examining their toxic effects on marine organisms, limitations of existing detection methods, and available remediation strategies, while identifying key research gaps that must be addressed to manage this global pollution challenge.
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.
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.
A Global Perspective on Microplastic Occurrence in Sediments and Water with a Special Focus on Sources, Analytical Techniques, Health Risks, and Remediation Technologies
This global review covers microplastic sources, distribution in water and sediment, analytical detection methods, health risks, and cleanup technologies. The authors highlight that microplastics absorb toxic chemicals from their surroundings and can transfer those pollutants to organisms that ingest them. The review calls for standardized detection methods and more research on the long-term health effects of microplastic exposure in humans.
Environmental Microplastics Distribution, Impact, and Determination Methods: a Review
This review provides a comprehensive overview of global microplastic distribution, their environmental and health impacts, and the analytical methods used to detect and quantify them. Researchers classified detection techniques into traditional, post-traditional, and advanced categories and identified significant gaps in current monitoring coverage. The study also presents possible removal approaches including biodegradation and the use of biodegradable plastic substitutes as paths toward reducing microplastic pollution.