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ClearMethods for sampling, processing, identification,and quantification of microplastics in the marine environment
This paper reviews and compares the various methods used to collect, process, identify, and quantify microplastics across different environmental samples. It highlights the lack of standardized protocols as a major obstacle to comparing results across studies and calls for methodological harmonization.
Microplastics Monitoring in Marine Environment
This review summarises the need for standardised methods for microplastic sampling and analysis across seawater, beach sediment, seabed sediment, and marine organisms to enable consistent spatiotemporal comparisons of microplastic abundance in marine environments.
Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Methods Used for Identification and Quantification
This review covered the methods used to identify and characterize microplastics in marine environmental samples, evaluating the strengths and limitations of visual, spectroscopic, and chemical approaches for field and laboratory analysis.
Challenge for the detection of microplastics in the environment
This review examines the major challenges in detecting and quantifying microplastics across different environmental matrices, including sampling inconsistencies, contamination risks, and limitations of current analytical methods. Addressing these methodological challenges is essential for producing reliable data on microplastic pollution levels worldwide.
Progress on microplastics pollution and its ecological effects in the coastal environment
This review systematically summarizes a decade of research on microplastic pollution and its ecological effects in coastal environments worldwide, identifying persistent technical challenges in sampling standardization, particle identification, and ecological impact assessment. Researchers highlight the need for unified methodologies to better understand the sources, fate, and biological consequences of coastal microplastic contamination.
Monitoring and Assessment of Microplastic Pollution in Coastal Zones: Sampling Methods and Spatial Distribution Characteristics
This review examines sampling methods and spatial distribution characteristics of microplastic pollution in coastal zones, synthesizing approaches for monitoring these key environmental interfaces. Researchers found that coastal zones serve as major sinks and dispersal areas for microplastics, with sampling methodology significantly influencing reported concentrations and distribution patterns.
Comparison of microplastic isolation and extraction procedures from marine sediments
Researchers compared five methods for extracting microplastics (40-710 μm) from marine sediments by spiking known MP quantities into sediment matrices and measuring percent recovery across extraction approaches. Results showed that sediment matrix composition, MP properties including size and polymer type, and extraction method all significantly influenced recovery efficiency, underscoring the need for standardized extraction protocols to enable cross-study comparisons.
A Review on Microplastics in Offshore and Nearshore Waters
This short review covered sampling and analytical techniques used to quantify microplastics in nearshore and offshore ocean waters, providing an overview of published distribution data across different oceans and coastal zones to guide standardization of marine microplastic monitoring.
Assessment of microplastic content in natural waters and sediments: sampling and sample preparation
Researchers reviewed and evaluated sampling and analytical methods for measuring microplastic content in natural waters and sediments, assessing sources of error and variability in current approaches. The review recommended a standardized protocol to improve cross-study comparability.
Analytical Techniques of Microplastic in an Aquatic Environment
This chapter provided a concise overview of microplastic analytical techniques in aquatic environments, covering sampling, extraction, and identification methods for detecting microplastics in coastal, freshwater, and deep-sea habitats—with comparison of spectroscopic and other approaches for polymer characterization.
Microplastics and its Impacts on Marine Environment and Biotic Communities – A Global Perspective
This review synthesizes global microplastic research conducted across seven continents, documenting the physical and chemical characteristics of microplastics, their bioaccumulation in sediments and marine organisms, and comparing detection technologies used across different regions.
Microplastics in Marine Environment: Occurrence, Distribution, and Extraction Methods in Marine Organisms
This review summarized the occurrence, distribution, and extraction methods of microplastics in marine organisms, highlighting how these particles enter marine food webs through runoff and atmospheric deposition and pose risks to ecosystems and human health.
Comparative analysis of microplastics detection methods applied to marine sediments: A case study in the Bay of Marseille
This study compared multiple analytical methods for detecting and quantifying microplastics in marine sediment samples, evaluating extraction efficiency, polymer identification accuracy, and practical considerations for routine environmental monitoring.
Microplastics in freshwater sediment: A review on methods, occurrence, and sources
This review synthesizes methods, occurrence data, and sources of microplastics in freshwater sediments, comparing approaches and providing recommendations for standardized sampling and analysis to fill knowledge gaps relative to marine research.
Current Progress on Marine Microplastics Pollution Research: A Review on Pollution Occurrence, Detection, and Environmental Effects
This review summarized current knowledge on marine microplastic pollution, covering detection methods, occurrence across ocean zones and organism types, and environmental effects, while identifying key research gaps around long-term ecological impacts and standardized monitoring protocols.
Evaluation of Microplastic Pollution in Marine Environments Sources, Distribution, and Impact
This review synthesizes evidence on microplastic contamination across all marine compartments — surface waters, sediments, and biota — analyzing major sources, distribution patterns, and ecological and human health impacts. The authors emphasize the pervasive and often irreversible nature of marine microplastic pollution.
Assessment of the Microplastics Content in Natural Waters and Sediments: Sampling and Sample Preparation
This review examines the challenges of sampling and preparing water and sediment samples for microplastic analysis, highlighting the lack of standardized methods. Researchers found that differences in collection techniques, sample volumes, and processing steps make it difficult to compare results across studies. The study calls for an internationally agreed-upon analytical framework to improve the reliability and consistency of microplastic monitoring worldwide.
Microplastics in seawater: a study of pretreatment, separation, and recovery.
Researchers developed and compared pretreatment, separation, and recovery methods for isolating microplastics from seawater samples, addressing the methodological diversity that limits comparability across marine monitoring studies. The study identified optimal combinations of techniques that improve microplastic recovery efficiency while minimizing contamination and sample loss.
Microplastic and its effects on the environment
This review describes the formation of microplastics as degradation byproducts of plastic materials and examines their environmental distribution and ecological consequences, with a focus on physical, chemical, and biological removal methods from water and sediment. The authors also describe protocols for collecting, processing, and analyzing microplastic samples in aquatic environments.
Assessing the Impact of Microplastic Pollution on Coastal Ecosystems: a Multidimensional Environmental Approach
This review presents a comprehensive multidimensional analysis of microplastic pollution in coastal ecosystems, covering sources, distribution pathways, ecological effects on marine organisms, and implications for environmental management. The authors draw on recent interdisciplinary research to assess how microplastics infiltrate nearly every ecological compartment from coastal waters to ocean sediments and interact with biological and chemical systems.
Detection and Extraction Techniques for Microplastics
This review covered detection and extraction techniques for microplastics across environmental matrices, evaluating spectroscopic, microscopic, and chromatographic methods. It assessed the strengths and limitations of each technique and identified where further method development is needed.
The Current and Prospective State of Microplastic Contamination in the Marine Ecosystem
This review assesses the current state of microplastic contamination research in marine ecosystems, identifying strengths and gaps in published literature and recommending new focus areas including marine polymer degradation, advanced sampling methods, and the consequences of research-generated microplastic pollution.
A field and laboratory manual for sampling, processing and reporting microplastics in coastal and marine environments
This paper presents a comprehensive, standardized field and laboratory guideline for sampling, processing, and reporting microplastics in coastal and marine environments, developed through international collaboration. The harmonized protocols aim to improve comparability of data across global monitoring programmes.
Recovering microplastics from marine samples: A review of current practices
This review compared the published methods for separating and identifying microplastics from seawater, sediment, and marine organisms, assessing their efficiency, processing time, and potential to damage particles. It highlights the lack of standardized protocols as a major barrier to comparing results across studies.