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ClearMicroplastic 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.
Microplastics Pollution in Aquatic Ecosystems: Challenges and Perspectives
A comprehensive review covered the challenges and future directions for addressing microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems, synthesizing knowledge on sources, fate, ecological impacts, and removal strategies. The paper provides a roadmap for research and policy priorities to reduce aquatic microplastic contamination.
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.
Micro- 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.
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.
State of the Art of Microplastic and Nanoplastic Pollution: Origin and Removal Methods
This review traces the origins of microplastic and nanoplastic pollution, examining their sources, environmental pathways, and removal methods across water, soil, and air, as well as their instantaneous and long-term effects on living organisms. The study emphasizes that despite recognition as a contaminant since 2004, micro- and nanoplastics remain poorly regulated globally.
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.
Microplastics and Environment: A mini Review on Detection, Removal, Health Issues and Regulation on India’s Perspective
This review addresses microplastic detection, removal, and health risks in India, examining how plastics degrade through various processes into microscopic particles that enter air, water, and food systems. The authors assess the current state of microplastic research, analytical methods, and regulatory frameworks in India and identify critical gaps in monitoring and policy.
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.
Microplastic Pollution in Oceans
This review provides an overview of microplastic pollution in the world's oceans, covering sources, distribution patterns, ecological impacts, and the challenges of monitoring and remediation at global scale. The authors emphasize the urgent need for international policy coordination and improved waste management.
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: Occurrences, treatment methods, regulations and foreseen environmental impacts
This review provides a broad overview of microplastic pollution, covering where these particles are found, how they are treated and regulated, and what environmental impacts are anticipated. Researchers found that current wastewater treatment methods are often insufficient to fully remove microplastics, and regulatory frameworks remain inconsistent across countries. The study emphasizes the urgent need for improved treatment technologies and coordinated global policies to address this growing environmental challenge.
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.
An overview of the sources, hazards and removal of microplastics
This review covers the sources, environmental fate, and removal methods for micro- and nanoplastics, noting that secondary particles formed from macroplastic breakdown constitute over 90% of total plastic pollution and summarizing physical, chemical, and biological removal approaches.
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.
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.
Microplastics Pollution: Global Challenge and Future Potential Solution
This review summarizes the global challenge of microplastic pollution, attributing it to increasing plastic demand across all sectors combined with poor waste management, and explores potential future solutions for reducing microplastic inputs to water, soil, and air.
The Current Situation and Future of Marine Microplastics: A Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review covers the origins, environmental distribution, ecological impacts, and future trajectories of marine microplastic pollution, noting that concentrations in some regions are projected to double by 2030. It evaluates current cleanup and mitigation efforts and identifies priority research directions.
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: 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.