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ClearTowards Sustainable Cosmetics Packaging
Not directly relevant to microplastics — this review examines the broader sustainability challenges of cosmetics packaging, including environmental, social, and economic trade-offs, without a specific focus on microplastic pollution.
Sustentabilidade no processo produtivo da indústria cosmética: uma revisão da literatura
This systematic literature review examined sustainability practices in the cosmetics industry, including the growing concern over microplastic ingredients in cosmetic products. The review identified trends toward greener formulations, sustainable packaging, and consumer-driven pressure for environmental responsibility. The cosmetics sector is increasingly recognizing its environmental impact and exploring alternatives to synthetic microplastics.
Environmental Impact of Treatment of Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials
Researchers assessed the environmental impact of treating pharmaceutical packaging materials at end of life, comparing incineration, recycling, and landfill pathways for plastics used in medicine packaging.
The future of baby cosmetics packaging and sustainable development: A look at sustainable materials and packaging innovations – A systematic review
This systematic review summarizes research on sustainable packaging alternatives for baby cosmetics, aiming to reduce plastic waste and pollution. The findings are relevant to families concerned about microplastics because conventional plastic packaging contributes to the microplastic contamination found in household dust and the broader environment.
Biotechnological Approaches and Policy Frameworks for Sustainable Management of Cosmetic Waste in India
This review classifies physical, chemical, and biological treatment technologies for cosmetic waste in India and calls for stronger regulatory enforcement and integrated approaches, given that cosmetic waste contains complex hazardous components including microplastics, heavy metals, and synthetic polymers.
Considerations for the Pharmaceutical Industry Regarding Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Microplastics
This review examines the responsibilities of the pharmaceutical industry in addressing microplastic pollution, discussing sources, environmental fate, and human health impacts of microplastics with attention to how the pharmaceutical sector both contributes to and can mitigate MP contamination. The authors outline mitigation and adaptation actions available to the industry as part of the broader societal response to plastic pollution.
Towards Sustainable Color Cosmetics Packaging
This paper is not directly about microplastics — it reviews the challenges and strategies for developing sustainable packaging for color cosmetics, focusing on environmental, economic, and consumer behavior factors rather than plastic particle pollution.
Sustainable Model Study: Collection and Disposal of Waste Medications with Micropollutant Properties in the Ecosystem within the Scope of Zero Waste
This study proposes sustainable approaches for managing waste pharmaceuticals, which are classified as micropollutants that escape conventional wastewater treatment and contaminate drinking water and soil. While focused on drug residues rather than microplastics, the paper addresses the broader challenge of micropollutant removal from water systems.
Micro-plastics as a source of contaminaion in pharmaceuticals
This review examined how microplastics contaminate pharmaceutical manufacturing environments and products, discussing the potential health risks of plastic particle exposure through medicines and the pathways by which microplastics enter pharmaceutical supply chains.
Microplastics in Cosmetics: Open Questions and Sustainable Opportunities
This review examines the role of microplastics in cosmetic products and the industry's transition toward sustainable alternatives as regulations tighten worldwide. Researchers surveyed the properties that make plastic particles useful in cosmetics, such as texture and appearance enhancement, alongside their environmental drawbacks. The study provides an overview of emerging bio-based and biodegradable replacement materials that could help the personal care industry eliminate microplastics from formulations.
Plastics and Microplastic in the Cosmetic Industry: Aggregating Sustainable Actions Aimed at Alignment and Interaction with UN Sustainable Development Goals
This review examined how the cosmetics industry uses microplastics and petroleum-derived polymers in product formulations and packaging, and assessed industry efforts to align with UN Sustainable Development Goals. Regulatory pressure and bioeconomy policies are accelerating substitution of synthetic microplastics with bio-based alternatives.
Current research trends on cosmetic microplastic pollution and its impacts on the ecosystem: A review
This review examines the presence of microplastics in personal care, cosmetics, and cleaning products and their environmental impact. Researchers assessed the fate, degradation mechanisms, and routes through which cosmetic microplastics enter the environment. The study also discusses emerging technologies for removing cosmetic microplastics and highlights the need for sustainable alternatives to reduce this domestic source of pollution.
Plastic particles in medicine: A systematic review of exposure and effects to human health
Medical plastics including bags, containers, and administration sets release micro- and nanoplastics along with chemical additives that can interact with pharmaceutical constituents, creating an understudied route of direct human exposure. Both primary exposure (during medical treatment) and secondary environmental exposure (from hospital plastic waste disposal) represent potential health hazards.
Sustainability in the Cosmetics Industry: Environmental Impacts, Statistics, and Solutions
This literature review examined the environmental impacts of the cosmetics industry, focusing on chemical pollutants released during production, microplastic ingredients, and packaging waste. The study found that the cosmetics sector contributes substantially to environmental contamination and called for stronger sustainability standards.
Biomedical Waste Management in Bangladesh: A Critical Review of Environmental Burden and Public Health Implications
This review examined biomedical waste management in Bangladesh, finding inadequate segregation, treatment, and disposal are creating serious public health and environmental risks. Disposable medical products contribute to microplastic pollution, and the authors called for improved regulation, healthcare worker training, and sustainable alternatives to single-use plastics.
Cleaning up plastics in healthcare waste: the transformative potential of leadership
This commentary argued that plastics used in healthcare should be classified as hazardous waste and that health professionals have a professional obligation to seek non-plastic alternatives rather than relying on recycling. The authors contended that recycling processes and recycled plastic products remain hazardous to health and the environment.
Mikroplastik und dermatologische Versorgung
This brief commentary highlighted the relevance of microplastic pollution to dermatological care, noting that plastics are ubiquitous in medical settings and arguing that physicians have a professional responsibility to promote more sustainable practices. The precautionary principle was invoked to justify action ahead of complete evidence on health impacts.
Effects of Mismanagement of Medical and Plastic Waste in Pre and During COVID-19 Outbreak
This review examined how mismanagement of medical and plastic waste — a problem worsened by COVID-19 — harms the environment and human health, particularly for healthcare workers. Improperly disposed PPE, sharps, and plastic packaging create pollution hazards and increase disease risk. The authors call for improved waste management infrastructure to address pandemic-era plastic waste surges.
Microplastics in personal care products: Exploring perceptions of environmentalists, beauticians and students
This study surveyed consumer and expert perceptions of microplastics in personal care products, finding that awareness was low among the general public but that both groups generally supported regulation. The research highlights the importance of consumer education and policy in reducing primary microplastic inputs from cosmetic products.
An integrated approach to address the biodegradability of cosmetic formulations as part of a corporate sustainability strategy
Not relevant to microplastics — this paper describes a corporate sustainability framework for evaluating and improving the biodegradability of cosmetic product portfolios, helping companies prioritize reformulation of high-impact products and ingredients.
Plastic pollution: why is it a public health problem?
This commentary argues that plastic pollution is a public health problem due to the widespread human exposure to microplastics and plastic-associated chemicals, calling for regulatory action to address the full lifecycle of plastics including production, use, and disposal.
Exploration of microplastics from personal care and cosmetic products and its estimated emissions to marine environment: An evidence from Malaysia
Microplastics including microbeads were quantified in personal care and cosmetic products sold in Malaysia, with scrubs and toothpastes as the top contributors, and estimated emissions to marine environments were calculated. The findings support the case for regulations banning plastic microbeads in cosmetics as a pollution prevention measure.
Environmental Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Occurrence and Remediation
This review covers contaminants of emerging concern, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, examining their occurrence in the environment and available remediation strategies. Researchers found that these pollutants are widespread but inconsistently regulated, and the study highlights the need for standardized monitoring and effective treatment technologies.
Circular Economy Implemented in a Cosmetic Company: a Case Study
This case study examined the implementation of circular economy principles in a cosmetic company, analyzing how reducing waste and maximizing material reuse can benefit both environmental and business performance. The cosmetics industry is a significant user of plastic packaging and a source of primary microplastics through products like microbeads.