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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.

2022 Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering 25 citations
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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.

2023 Water 31 citations
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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.

2023 4 citations
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Microplastics: Current Status in the Environment and Human Health Risks: A Comprehensive Review

This comprehensive review covers the sources, environmental distribution, food chain entry, and human health risks of microplastics, with particular attention to their role as vectors for chemical pollutants and pathogens. It highlights regulatory gaps and emerging mitigation approaches across terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric systems.

2025 International Journal of Environmental Sciences
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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.

2026 Journal of Environmental Management
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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.

2025
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Microplastic Pollution: An In-depth Review of its Sources, Formation Mechanisms, Quantification Techniques, Environmental Impacts, Toxicological Effects and Remediation Strategies

This comprehensive review covers the full scope of microplastic pollution, from where microplastics come from and how they form, to how scientists detect and measure them. Researchers summarized the environmental and health impacts of microplastic contamination across ecosystems including water, soil, and air. The study also evaluates current cleanup and remediation strategies, highlighting the need for coordinated global efforts to address this widespread form of pollution.

2025 World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 2 citations
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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.

2021 Chemosphere 298 citations
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Macroissues with Microplastics: A Review on Distribution, Environmental Impacts, Pollutant Interactions, Toxicity, Analytical Methodology and Mitigation Strategies

This comprehensive review covers the global problem of microplastic pollution, examining how these tiny plastic particles are distributed across oceans, freshwater, soil, air, and even remote areas worldwide. Researchers summarized the toxic effects of microplastics on living organisms, their interactions with other pollutants, and current methods for detecting and quantifying them. The study also evaluates potential remediation and reduction strategies for controlling microplastic contamination in the environment.

2025 Applied Sciences 1 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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Occurrence, distribution, characteristics, toxicity, human health effects and removal techniques of Microplastic: A Review

This review surveys the occurrence, distribution, toxicity, and health effects of microplastics across environmental compartments, examining how these particles enter ecosystems and food chains and evaluating available removal and mitigation techniques.

2023 International Journal of Advanced Chemistry Research 1 citations
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Microplastic pollution: Sources, fate, impacts and research gaps

This review summarizes the sources, environmental fate, and health impacts of microplastics across oceans, rivers, soils, and polar regions. It highlights that microplastics carry toxic chemicals into ecosystems and can enter the human body through food, water, and air.

2021 Quality of Life (Banja Luka) - APEIRON 3 citations
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Microplastics in ecological system: Their prevalence, health effects, and remediation

This review provides an overview of microplastic prevalence across different ecosystems and their potential effects on environmental and human health. The researchers discuss how microplastics enter water, soil, and food chains, and examine the various biological effects documented in organisms. They also review current remediation strategies being developed to address microplastic contamination.

2024 Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & Management 8 citations
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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.

2025 Ecological Questions
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Microplastics in the environment: A critical overview on its fate, toxicity, implications, management, and bioremediation strategies

This review provides a broad overview of microplastic pollution, covering how these particles enter freshwater systems, accumulate in organisms, and carry toxic chemicals through the food chain. With approximately 360 million tons of plastic produced globally each year and only 7% recycled, microplastics have become a pervasive threat to water quality and, by extension, human health.

2023 Journal of Environmental Management 252 citations
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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.

2025 Journal of Environmental Management 17 citations
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A Review of Microplastic Pollution: Harmful Effect on Environment and Animals, Remediation Strategies

This review provides a broad overview of microplastic pollution, covering its sources, environmental distribution, and harmful effects on wildlife and ecosystems. Researchers summarize current knowledge about how microplastics enter food chains and interact with other pollutants. The study also evaluates existing cleanup and remediation strategies for addressing microplastic contamination across different environments.

2023 Journal of Ecological Engineering 16 citations
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Microplastics as an emerging menace to environment: Insights into their uptake, prevalence, fate, and sustainable solutions

This review provides a comprehensive look at how microplastics enter the environment, accumulate in living organisms, and move through food chains. The paper covers sources, transport mechanisms, and the health implications of microplastic exposure for both wildlife and humans. The authors also discuss emerging solutions including biodegradable alternatives and advanced filtration technologies.

2023 Environmental Research 49 citations
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Microplastics in Environmental Setting: A Review on Sources, Exposure Routes and Potential Toxicities on Human Health

This review examines microplastics in environmental settings, synthesizing current knowledge on sources, distribution across terrestrial and aquatic compartments, fate processes, and ecological consequences. The authors identify priority research areas needed to address remaining uncertainties in microplastic risk assessment.

2024 Bioresources and Environment 1 citations
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Systematic Assessment of Mechanisms, Developments, Innovative Solutions, and Future Perspectives of Microplastics and Ecotoxicity – A Review

This comprehensive review summarizes current knowledge about how microplastics form, spread through the environment, and affect living organisms at every level of the food chain. It covers the toxic effects of microplastics on cells, organs, and whole organisms, including inflammation, oxidative stress, and hormone disruption. The review also evaluates emerging methods for breaking down microplastics, concluding that a combination of prevention, cleanup, and policy changes is needed to address this growing health threat.

2024 Advanced Sustainable Systems 19 citations