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Microplastics: Contaminants of Global Concern in the Anthropocene

This review summarizes the state of knowledge on microplastics as a global contaminant, covering their sources, distribution in different environments, and potential ecological and health effects. It frames microplastics as a defining pollution challenge of the Anthropocene era.

2018 Revista Virtual de Química 64 citations
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"mi̇kroplasti̇k Atiklarin Neden Olduğu Makro Problemler: Sürdürülebi̇li̇r Yöneti̇m Yaklaşimi"

This Turkish-language review (with an English abstract) provides an overview of microplastic pollution as an emerging global environmental and human health problem, covering sources, distribution, and the need for sustainable management strategies including recycling and reducing single-use plastics. While primarily a summary of existing evidence, it emphasizes that regulatory action is urgently needed to tackle the scale of microplastic contamination across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems.

2023
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Mi̇kroplasti̇kler Ve Canlilar Üzeri̇ne Zararli Etki̇leri̇

This Turkish-language chapter reviews the harmful effects of microplastics on living organisms, summarizing evidence for their presence in human blood, atmospheric air, and ocean fish, and discussing the popular estimate that humans ingest the equivalent of a credit card of plastic per week. The text highlights escalating exposure and calls for urgent mitigation.

2024
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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.

2022 Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry 52 citations
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Global Risks of Microplastics to Ecosystem and Human Health: An Emerging Environmental Disaster

This review characterizes microplastic contamination as an emerging environmental disaster, summarizing its negative impacts across multiple levels of biological organization and the environments where research has been most active. The authors call for accelerated scientific and regulatory attention.

2024 Microplastics
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Utjecaj mikroplastike na okoliš i ljudsko zdravlje

This Croatian-language review article summarizes research on the environmental and human health impacts of microplastics and nanoplastics. It highlights the alarming ubiquity of these particles across all environmental compartments and the growing scientific concern about their biological effects.

2020
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Mikroplastiklerin Ekosistem Ve Biyoçeşitlilik Üzerine Etkileri

This Turkish-language review examines the effects of microplastics on ecosystem health and biodiversity, summarizing how plastic particles disrupt ecological relationships across soil, freshwater, and marine environments and affect species at multiple trophic levels.

2025
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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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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.

2025 Toxics
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Microplastics: A Looming Threat to Human Life and Ecosystem

This review described microplastics as a pervasive environmental and health threat, covering sources, exposure pathways—ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact—and potential biological effects. The authors summarized evidence of microplastic accumulation in human tissues and called for coordinated international action to reduce plastic production and environmental release.

2025 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Microplastics: A Looming Threat to Human Life and Ecosystem

This review described microplastics as a pervasive environmental and health threat, covering sources, exposure pathways—ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact—and potential biological effects. The authors summarized evidence of microplastic accumulation in human tissues and called for coordinated international action to reduce plastic production and environmental release.

2025 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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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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Impacts des nano- et micro-plastiques sur l'environnement et la santé

This French-language review summarizes the omnipresence of plastic pollution in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, covering sources, environmental fate, and human health consequences of micro- and nanoplastic exposure.

2024 HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
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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.

2023 Bioengineered 60 citations
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Microplastics-sources, spread and impact on the living world

This review examines microplastic sources, environmental spread, and biological impacts, covering particles ranging from 1 to 5000 µm in diameter derived from plastic degradation, industrial production, and everyday use of synthetic materials and cosmetics. The authors highlight microplastics' capacity to cross biological barriers, accumulate in tissues, and trigger inflammatory and immune responses in organisms throughout the food chain.

2025 Repository of Faculty of Science
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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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Microplastics in ecosystems and health

This review summarizes how microplastics originate from degrading macroplastics and intentionally manufactured products, describes their impacts on marine organisms and human health, and surveys emerging recycling technologies and regulatory responses. It provides a useful plain-language synthesis of why microplastics are a dual environmental-and-health problem, acting both as physical contaminants and as vectors for toxic chemicals.

2023 ECORFAN Journal Republic of Guatemala
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Microplastics: Environmental Ubiquity, Biological Fate, and Human Health Implications

This review summarizes the current understanding of microplastics as a growing global contaminant affecting both ecosystems and human health. Researchers note that microplastics can carry harmful compounds and have been found throughout the environment and in the human body, while global regulatory frameworks remain insufficient. The study calls for enhanced monitoring, stricter regulations, and source-reduction strategies to address the long-term risks of microplastic exposure.

2025 International Journal of Sciences and Innovation Engineering 1 citations
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Invisible Threats The Impact of Micro Plastics on Our Environment

This overview paper summarizes the environmental threats posed by microplastics, covering their sources, persistence, distribution in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and potential biological and ecological consequences.

2025 Journal on Applied and Chemical Physics
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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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Mikroplastik Kirliliği ve Tatlısu Ekosistemlerindeki Etkileri

This Turkish-language review summarizes microplastic pollution and its effects on freshwater ecosystems, covering sources, distribution, and ecological impacts. The paper calls for better monitoring and regulation to protect freshwater resources that millions of people depend on for drinking water.

2023 Menba Kastamonu Üniversitesi Su Ürünleri Fakültesi Dergisi 2 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 as Emerging Environmental Contaminants: Sources, Distribution and Ecological Implications

This review examines the sources, environmental distribution, and ecological implications of microplastics, which are now found across aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments worldwide. The study discusses how these persistent plastic fragments can enter food webs and highlights priorities for future monitoring, risk assessment, and pollution mitigation efforts.

2026 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Yerüstü Su Kaynaklarinda Mi̇kroplasti̇kler

This Turkish review examines microplastic contamination in surface water sources, tracing how plastic waste introduced since the 1950s degrades into microplastics that are transported to aquatic environments via river runoff and urban-industrial discharges, where they accumulate and adversely affect aquatic life.

2024