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61,005 resultsShowing papers similar to Toward More-Than-Human Understandings of Sport and the Environment: A New Materialist Analysis of Everyday Fitness Practices
ClearMicroplastics and exercise: impacts on performance and physiological health
This review examines how microplastic exposure may affect athletic performance and physiological health, discussing evidence that MPs can enter the body through exercise-related inhalation and ingestion and may impair respiratory function, endocrine signaling, and inflammation pathways relevant to sports performance.
The Changing Landscape of Sport Facilities
This book examines the environmental impact of modern sport facility development, challenging the 'faster, higher, stronger' logic that drives growing resource consumption in the sports economy. The authors call for reimagining sport facilities with climate responsibility and sustainability at the center. The work is relevant to plastic waste because sporting events and facilities generate significant single-use plastic waste.
A Systematic Review of Sustainable Sportwear Consumption in Indonesia : Trend and Future Direction
Despite its classification in this database, this systematic review examines sustainable sportswear consumption trends in Indonesia — not microplastic research. Indonesian consumers are gradually shifting toward eco-friendly products, but barriers including limited awareness, higher costs, and low market penetration of sustainable brands persist.
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure
This paper calls for leisure studies scholars to place disposability and plastic waste at the center of their research agenda, arguing that leisure practices are deeply implicated in producing the microplastic pollution accumulating in oceans and ecosystems worldwide.
Advancing sustainability of textiles: a life cycle and microfiber emission assessment of locally manufactured circular sportswear
Researchers performed a full life cycle assessment of a circular-economy cycling jersey manufactured locally in Europe, finding that energy use was the dominant environmental impact and that marine microplastic emissions from synthetic fibers were comparable in harm to nutrient pollution. The study found that changes to manufacturing and consumer washing habits could reduce the jersey's environmental footprint by up to 33%.
Mechanisms of Generation and Ecological Impacts of Nano- and Microplastics from Artificial Turf Systems in Sports Facilities
This review examines how artificial turf in sports facilities generates nano- and microplastics through mechanical wear, UV radiation, and weathering of synthetic grass fibers and infill materials. These plastic particles have been detected in drainage systems and surrounding soils near sports facilities, with laboratory studies showing harmful effects on soil organisms and aquatic life. The findings highlight artificial turf as an overlooked but significant source of microplastic pollution in urban environments.
Exploring microplastic pollution from origin to environmental impact and remediation approaches
This review provides a comprehensive assessment of microplastic pollution, covering their sources from synthetic textiles, cosmetics, and packaging to their fate in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The study critically examines detection techniques, structural and chemical classification methods, and the health risks microplastics pose to organisms including humans.
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.
Release of Microplastics from Shoe Outsoles into the Environment by Walking and Jogging, and Ingestion of Shoe Outsole Microplastics by Goldfish
Researchers quantified microplastic release from shoe outsoles during walking and jogging, finding that shoe abrasion generates measurable plastic particles that enter aquatic environments and can be ingested by goldfish. A series of five experiments demonstrated a direct relationship between distance traveled and shoe weight loss, establishing footwear as an underappreciated terrestrial source of microplastic pollution.
Microplastic pollution on hiking and running trails in Australian protected environments
This study detected and characterized microplastics on hiking and trail running routes in Australian protected natural areas, finding that footwear and clothing shed significant quantities of synthetic microplastic fibers onto trails in ecologically sensitive environments.
Plastics on the rocks: the invisible but harmful footprint of shoe soles
This study found that shoe soles worn on a short mountain hiking trail shed significant quantities of microplastic particles, contaminating the path and surrounding vegetation. The finding reveals that recreational outdoor activities are an overlooked source of microplastic pollution even in protected natural areas.
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.
Theoretical Review on Microplastic Pollution: A Multifaceted Threat to Marine Ecosystems, Human Health, and Environment
This review provides a broad overview of how microplastic pollution threatens marine ecosystems and human health through multiple pathways including seafood consumption, drinking water, and air inhalation. Researchers summarized evidence that microplastics cause physical harm to marine species, transport toxic chemicals through food webs, and may be linked to inflammatory and hormonal disruption in humans. The study emphasizes that addressing this problem requires coordinated policy changes, better waste management, and development of biodegradable plastic alternatives.
Microplastics as an emerging contaminant of concern to our environment: a brief overview of the sources and implications
This overview describes how microplastics have become a widespread environmental contaminant found in water, soil, air, and living organisms. Beyond being pollutants themselves, microplastics can carry other toxic substances and even antibiotic-resistant bacteria, amplifying their health risks. The authors emphasize that microplastic exposure through food, water, and air poses a significant and underappreciated threat to human health.
Consuming and retailing fashion: South Asian diaspora negotiating clothing practices, identities and community making in Glasgow
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a cultural anthropology study examining fashion retail practices and identity construction among South Asian diaspora communities in Glasgow.
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.
Airborne microplastic emissions from synthetic sports surfaces and associated health risks to children
This review examines synthetic sports surfaces like tracks and artificial turf as sources of airborne microplastic emissions in school environments, focusing on health risks to children. The study highlights evidence linking inhaled airborne microplastics to oxidative stress, inflammation, and systemic health effects, noting that children face heightened vulnerability due to their physiology and activity patterns on these surfaces.
Microplastic pollution a real global danger
This paper summarizes the global microplastic pollution crisis, noting that humans are exposed through food, drink, and air, with polyester fibers from synthetic textiles among the most common types found in the environment. It argues for preventive and corrective measures at the international and individual levels.
Mini review of microplastic pollutions and its impact on the environment and human health
This mini review summarizes the sources, distribution, and environmental impacts of microplastic pollution, highlighting the health risks posed by chemical leaching from microplastics and the need for better reduction strategies.
Multiple Effects, Pathways, and Potential Health Risks from Environmental Microplastic Exposure
This review synthesizes nearly two decades of research on the multiple pathways through which environmental microplastics affect human and ecological health, including chemical toxicity, physical impacts, and potential roles as carriers of pathogens and contaminants.
Nano- and microplastics in the environment : presence, effects and their role as a Trojan horse for other pollutants
This thesis reviews the presence and effects of nano- and microplastics in the environment, examining how they act as carriers for other pollutants and discussing their potential health impacts on ecosystems and humans.
Unraveling the ecological impact of textile microfibers: Current knowledge and research challenges
This review examines the ecological impact of textile microfibers, a major subset of microplastic pollution released during laundry and fabric wear. Researchers found significant knowledge gaps regarding how these fibers affect organisms and ecosystems, particularly when interacting with other environmental contaminants. The study calls for more standardized research methods and greater attention to this pervasive but understudied form of microplastic pollution.
A planet too rich in fibre
Researchers highlighted that synthetic microfibres shed from clothing have become pervasive across environmental compartments — including drinking water and food — raising concerns about chronic human and ecosystem exposure to a poorly understood class of microplastic contaminant.
Environmental pollution by microplastics and its consequences on human health
This narrative review examines how plastics discarded in the environment fragment into microplastics through environmental and biological stresses, accumulate across terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and enter human bodies primarily through seafood, drinking water, and air inhalation, summarizing documented toxicological consequences for human health based on literature published from 2017 to 2022.