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Microplastic pollution in marine environments: An in-depth analysis of advanced monitoring techniques, removal technologies, and future challenges

This review provides a comprehensive analysis of microplastic pollution in marine environments, covering sources, ecological impacts, and current monitoring and removal technologies. Researchers examined physical, chemical, and biological methods for microplastic detection and cleanup, including filtration, separation, and hybrid approaches. The study concludes that while progress has been made, significant gaps remain in our ability to effectively monitor and remove microplastics from ocean ecosystems.

2025 Marine Environmental Research 17 citations
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The detrimental impact of microplastics on the Marine Environment and potential remediation strategies.

This review analyzes the detrimental impacts of microplastics on marine environments, summarizing documented hazards to marine life and ecosystems from historical and recent research, and evaluates several representative remediation strategies for addressing microplastic contamination. The authors found that microplastics interfere broadly with marine organism physiology and food web dynamics, and that current treatment approaches — including filtration, photocatalysis, and biological degradation — each carry limitations requiring further development for large-scale application.

2024 Science and Technology of Engineering Chemistry and Environmental Protection
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Membrane Filtration Technique for Remediation of Microplastics

This chapter reviews membrane filtration as a technique for removing microplastics (plastics smaller than 5 mm) from water environments, examining how various membrane types and configurations intercept plastic particles during treatment. The authors discuss the advantages, limitations, and scalability of membrane-based approaches for microplastic remediation.

2024 Microplastics
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Environmental prevalence, fate, impacts, and mitigation of microplastics—a critical review on present understanding and future research scope

This critical review evaluates the environmental prevalence, fate, impacts, and mitigation of microplastics across aquatic, atmospheric, and terrestrial environments as well as human tissues. It discusses membrane-based and other treatment technologies for microplastic removal, identifying persistent monitoring and standardization challenges.

2020 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 57 citations
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Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review

This review synthesized the state of knowledge on microplastics as marine contaminants, covering their sources, pathways, distribution, biological uptake, and potential ecological and toxicological effects.

2011 Marine Pollution Bulletin 5709 citations
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Elimination of microplastics from the aquatic milieu: A dream to achieve

Researchers reviewed current methods for eliminating microplastics from aquatic environments, including membrane technologies such as ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and microfiltration. The study assessed how microplastics interact with toxic organic chemicals, antibiotics, and heavy metals in water, compounding their environmental impact. The review suggests that while various removal technologies show promise, achieving complete elimination of microplastics from water remains a significant challenge.

2022 Chemosphere 41 citations
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Análise de técnicas de remediação para a mitigação de micro e nanoplásticos em oceanos com base na revisão da literatura

This review analyzed scientific literature on remediation techniques for removing micro- and nanoplastics from ocean environments, identifying and comparing two key approaches: the first focused on membrane-based methods — ultrafiltration, membrane bioreactors, and dynamic membrane technology — for wastewater treatment, and the second examined nanomaterials as adsorbents. Membrane technologies demonstrated high removal efficiency for micro- and nanoplastics, though each method presents implementation challenges that require further research.

2024
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Filtration Solutions for Microplastic Mitigation: Cutting-Edge Filtration Technologies and Membrane Innovations for Environmental Protection

This review covers advances in filtration technologies and membrane innovations for removing microplastics from the environment, examining the performance, limitations, and scalability of approaches including membrane filtration, coagulation, and combined treatment processes.

2025 Preprints.org
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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.

2022 Recent Innovations in Chemical Engineering (Formerly Recent Patents on Chemical Engineering) 4 citations
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Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions

This review synthesized research on the distribution and significance of microplastics across the marine environment, covering sources, transport pathways, ecological interactions, and the state of knowledge on biological and chemical effects.

2017 Environment International 2517 citations
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Microplastics in different water samples (seawater, freshwater, and wastewater): Removal efficiency of membrane treatment processes

Researchers studied microplastic distribution across seawater, freshwater, and wastewater sources in France and evaluated the removal efficiency of membrane treatment processes. The study found that wastewater contained the highest concentrations of microplastics, and that membrane-based treatment technologies showed strong potential for removing microplastic particles from different water sources.

2023 Water Research 119 citations
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The Potential Role of Membrane Technology in the Removal of Microplastics from Wastewater

This review examines membrane filtration as a technology for removing microplastics from wastewater, finding it promising but limited by issues of fouling and chemical instability. Improving membrane technology could significantly reduce the amount of microplastics discharged into waterways from treatment plants.

2021 Journal of Applied Membrane Science & Technology 21 citations
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Ubiquitous microplastics, sources, impacts, and treatment: Importance of cost-effective ceramic membranes for MPs removal

This review examines the sources, environmental impacts, and treatment methods for microplastic contamination, with a focus on ceramic membrane filtration. Researchers found that while conventional treatment methods have limitations, ceramic membranes offer cost-effective and durable performance for removing microplastics from water. The study highlights the widespread presence of microplastics across environmental compartments and the urgent need for scalable removal technologies.

2024 Water Cycle 3 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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Microplastics in marine ecosystems: Sources, effects, and mitigation strategies

This review examines the sources, environmental pathways, ecological impacts across trophic levels, and mitigation strategies for microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems, synthesizing current evidence on biological harm and evaluating policy frameworks, technological solutions, and individual behavioral changes aimed at reducing marine microplastic loads.

2022 International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies 1 citations
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A review on strategies for the removal and degradation of microplastics from aquatic environments: Pros, cons, policies perspectives, and life cycle and economic assessment

Researchers reviewed strategies for removing and degrading microplastics from aquatic environments, including sand filtration, adsorption, and membrane technologies. The study evaluates the advantages, challenges, and practical solutions for each approach, alongside policy perspectives and life cycle economic assessments to guide future remediation efforts.

2026 Marine Pollution Bulletin
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Pollution to Solution: Understanding and Addressing Microplastic Contamination in the Environment

This review synthesizes current knowledge on how microplastics and nanoplastics are distributed across freshwater and marine environments, how they interact with and are taken up by aquatic organisms, and what removal technologies show the most promise. It covers the full lifecycle from macroplastic fragmentation to nano-scale particles, and surveys physical, chemical, and biological treatment methods. The review provides a useful overview for researchers and environmental managers looking to understand the scope of the microplastic problem and identify where interventions are most needed.

2026 Environmental Quality Management
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Distribution Characteristics and Impact of Microplastics: A Literature Review

This literature review summarizes the types, sources, distribution, and pollution status of microplastics in marine and lake environments, their interactions with other contaminants, and removal technologies. It finds MPs are prevalent across aquatic environments and harmful to biological and human health, with some effective removal technologies available but implementation remaining limited.

2025 Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH)
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Research Progress of Microplastics Removal Technology in Water Environment

This review examined recent advances in microplastic removal technologies for water environments, addressing the significant risks posed by MPs' widespread origins, inadequate control, and resistance to degradation. Various treatment technologies were assessed for their efficiency in eliminating microplastic pollution from water systems.

2024 1 citations
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Sources and Impacts of Microplastics in Aquatic Environment and Remediation Strategies

This review covers sources of microplastics in aquatic environments (degraded plastics, industrial processes, personal care products, textiles), their ecological and health impacts, and remediation strategies including filtration, bioremediation, and advanced oxidation processes.

2025
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Microplastics in aquatic environments: a review of recent advances

This review synthesizes recent advances in understanding microplastic contamination in aquatic environments, covering sources, distribution, and physical, chemical, and biological removal methods, and highlighting that no standardized cost-effective removal solution currently exists. The review emphasizes that microplastics cycle through natural and engineered systems, requiring whole-system approaches to avoid unintended recontamination.

2023 Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science 5 citations
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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.

2025 Discover Environment 1 citations
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Removing microplastics from aquatic environments: A critical review

This review summarized current technologies for removing microplastics from aquatic environments, including adsorption, filtration, and degradation methods used in freshwater, marine, drinking water, and wastewater treatment systems, identifying key research gaps.

2022 Environmental Science and Ecotechnology 146 citations
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Detection and Fate of Microplastics and Nanoplastics and Technologies for Their Removal

This review covers the detection, environmental fate, and removal technologies for microplastics and nanoplastics across aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric ecosystems. Researchers summarize the current understanding of how these particles are distributed in environmental matrices and biota, from marine organisms to human tissues. The study highlights both the scale of the contamination problem and the emerging technologies being developed to address it.

2026 Molecules