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ClearSustainable Development Issues in Chemistry Learning as Educational for Sustainable Development Implementation: A Systematic Literature Review
This systematic literature review synthesized research on integrating sustainable development issues into chemistry education. While not directly about microplastics, it identified microplastic pollution as one of the sustainability topics being incorporated into chemistry curricula to help students understand real-world environmental challenges.
The Future of Chemical Sciences is Sustainable
This perspective discusses how chemistry as a discipline must embrace sustainability across environmental, economic, and equity dimensions. Researchers propose a framework of priorities and metrics to help guide chemical sciences toward more sustainable practices. The study highlights the role chemistry plays in addressing global challenges including plastic pollution and the development of greener materials.
Pedagogical Purposes of Scientifical and Technological Literacy within Sustainable and Green Chemistry in the High School
This paper distinguishes between environmental, sustainable, and green chemistry and discusses how these frameworks can be integrated into high school science education. Teaching students about plastic pollution and its chemical impacts is part of developing scientifically literate citizens.
Chemistry must respond to the crisis of transgression of planetary boundaries
This paper argued that chemistry as a discipline must urgently respond to the transgression of planetary boundaries, including those related to chemical pollution. The study outlined three steps: understanding the threats from a chemistry perspective, developing sustainable solutions through innovation, and transforming chemistry education and industry toward sustainability and circularity.
High School Sustainable and Green Chemistry: Historical–Epistemological and Pedagogical Considerations
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a chemistry education paper discussing how to better integrate sustainable and green chemistry into high school curricula, tracing the history of the Science, Technology, and Society movement and advocating for systems thinking approaches.
Work-In-Progress: Integrating Sustainability Across the Chemical Engineering Curriculum
This work-in-progress describes efforts to integrate sustainability concepts, including plastic pollution and circular economy principles, across the chemical engineering curriculum, developing case studies and learning objectives for engineering students.
The Importance of Environmental Sustainability for Healthy Ageing and The Incorporation of Systems Thinking in Education for A Sustainable Environment
This paper argues that environmental sustainability is a prerequisite for healthy ageing in an increasingly elderly global population, reviewing evidence linking chemical pollution, climate change, and ecosystem degradation to age-related disease. The authors call for systems thinking education to train public health professionals to address environmental sustainability as a core component of healthy ageing policy.
Chemicals management approach to sustainable development of materials
This review examines how chemicals management approaches must evolve for sustainable materials development, arguing that planetary boundaries and path-dependent industrial trajectories require rethinking how chemicals including plastics are produced and regulated.
Sustainable Development Goals and Analytical Chemistry
This review examines the role analytical chemistry plays in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting how chemical measurement and monitoring underpin progress in water quality, food safety, environmental protection, and health. The authors argue for greater integration of analytical science into SDG frameworks and policy.
Science Studies teachers’ selection of content when teaching for Sustainable Development
This paper is not about microplastics; it investigates how Swedish Science Studies teachers select content when teaching for Sustainable Development, finding that most teachers struggle to take a truly holistic approach that integrates social, economic, and environmental perspectives. The study is an education research paper with no relevance to microplastic science.
Development and validation of an assessment for measuring chemical literacy in chemical equilibrium
A chemical literacy assessment was developed and validated for high school students studying chemical equilibrium, designed to measure how well students connect chemistry concepts to real-world phenomena including environmental chemistry and pollution. The assessment tool provided a validated instrument for evaluating chemistry education outcomes relevant to environmental awareness.
Sustainability in K-12 education: how can schools support students to address challenges of environmental sustainability?
This action research study examines how K-12 schools can promote environmental sustainability, finding that successful programs combine student education, school-wide practices, and community engagement to reduce environmental impact.
Assessing in-service chemistry teachers’ environmental literacy on hydrosphere pollution
Researchers assessed the environmental literacy of 66 in-service chemistry teachers regarding hydrosphere pollution topics including microplastics, agricultural runoff, ocean acidification, e-waste, and persistent organic pollutants. Teachers showed moderately low overall environmental literacy with limited knowledge and frequent misconceptions on newer issues like microplastics, despite demonstrating strong pro-environmental dispositions.
An Argumentation Practice Based on STEAM for the Chemistry Education of Gifted
This paper describes an argumentation-based STEAM approach to chemistry education for gifted students, using real-world environmental problems as a context. It is part of a collection examining how sustainability themes can be woven into advanced science education.
Towards sustainable environmental chemistry: A comprehensive review
This review traces the evolution of environmental chemistry toward sustainability, covering recent advances in green catalysis, waste valorization, AI-assisted environmental monitoring, carbon capture, and bioremediation as tools for reducing chemical pollution including microplastics.
A Retrospective Approach to Pro-Environmental Behavior from Environmental Education: An Alternative from Sustainable Development
This 20-year bibliometric retrospective on environmental education and pro-environmental behaviour research found a persistent gap between acquiring environmental knowledge and changing behaviour, concluding that participatory pedagogical approaches and greater integration of sustainable development into higher education are needed to bridge this divide.
Systems Thinking Research in Science and Sustainability Education: A Theoretical Note
This theoretical review examined systems thinking in science and sustainability education, critically analyzing the contradictions within sustainable development education and arguing that truly transformative environmental education must challenge anthropocentric assumptions embedded in SDG frameworks.
A Roadmap for Integrating Sustainability into Software Engineering Education
This paper presents a roadmap for integrating sustainability principles into software engineering education, outlining how curricula can be redesigned to equip future developers with the knowledge to build environmentally and socially responsible software systems.
Systematic literature review: a typology of Sustainability Literacy and Environmental Literacy
This systematic literature review develops a typology of sustainability literacy and environmental education frameworks, mapping how different educational approaches define and measure student competencies related to ecological awareness and sustainable behavior.
Addressing the sustainability challenges for polymers in liquid formulations
This perspectives piece identifies the sustainability challenges facing polymer use in liquid formulations, particularly around persistence and environmental fate, and reviews the role of chemistry in developing more sustainable alternatives. A call to action is made for the field to prioritize solution-oriented research.
Chemistry inquiry conducted by secondary school students into material degradation in the context of sustainability
Despite its title referencing material degradation and sustainability, this paper describes a chemistry education project in which ninth-grade students investigated how materials break down in the environment using inquiry-based learning — not original microplastic research. It examines green chemistry principles at the secondary school level, and is not relevant to microplastic pollution or human health impacts.
Sustainability within a global environmental change context
This book chapter summarizes the key human drivers of environmental change—including plastic and microplastic pollution—and introduces ecosystem services as the framework for understanding how human activities disrupt the natural systems that sustain life. It provides conceptual context for sustainability education rather than original empirical findings.
What and why in teaching about sustainability
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a science education study examining how Swedish high school teachers select and justify content when teaching sustainable development, using a pedagogical content knowledge framework.
Chemistry’s Role in Malaysia Sustainable Development Progress
This brief review summarises chemistry's role in Malaysia's progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, drawing on a special topic article published in Pure and Applied Chemistry. The piece serves as an overview pointing readers to deeper reference material on Malaysian sustainable development contributions across chemistry-related SDG targets.