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ClearThe Art of (Up)Recycling: How Plastic Debris Has Become a Matter of Art?
This art and culture paper examines how contemporary artists have used plastic waste as a medium, exploring how art can communicate environmental concerns about plastic pollution to the public. The work documents artistic responses to the global plastic crisis. While not a scientific study, art-based approaches are relevant to raising public awareness about microplastic contamination and motivating behavioral change.
Plastiglomerates, Microplastics, Nanoplastics
This essay explores the cultural and ecological meaning of plastic pollution through art and speculative design, examining how plastics have become embedded in every environment including the human body. It argues that understanding plastic as part of a 'dark ecology' is essential for rethinking our relationship with synthetic materials.
Eco-Art and Reeling in Anthropogenic Adversity
This paper explores how eco-art practices can raise awareness of anthropogenic pollution, including microplastics, by engaging communities through creative and visual approaches. The authors argue that artistic interventions can complement scientific communication in addressing environmental adversity.
Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork
This study explores how upcycling discarded plastics into artwork can serve as a tool for environmental education about plastic pollution. Researchers describe an art installation collaboration that brought together the art world and environmental advocacy to raise public awareness. The study suggests that creative approaches to reusing plastic waste can effectively engage communities in understanding the scale and consequences of plastic pollution.
Vanishing Point Unseen : an art/science collaboration and exhibition on the impact of microplastics in our oceans
This paper describes Vanishing Point, an art-science collaboration and exhibition raising public awareness of ocean plastic pollution and its ecological and social impacts. The project illustrates how scientific findings about microplastics can be communicated to broader audiences through visual art and storytelling.
Micro and Nanoplastics–Plastisphere, Biotoxicity, Impact on Human Health, and Mitigation Strategies
Researchers reviewed the presence and biotoxicity of micro- and nanoplastics in environmental samples and the food chain, including their role in forming the plastisphere, a human-made ecosystem of organisms living on plastic waste. The study examines the potential health impacts of these particles on humans and discusses mitigation strategies for reducing plastic pollution in both atmospheric and aquatic environments.
Revealing the Invisible: Marine Plastic Waste and its Effects in Science-Inspired Visual Art
This paper explores how science-inspired visual art can make invisible marine plastic pollution perceptible to the public by translating scientific data into aesthetic experiences. The authors argue that artistic visualizations close the perceived distance between everyday life and ocean plastic harm, fostering stronger public engagement with pollution issues.
The immersive performance of visual poetry: the result of a quest for a renewed literary-immersive art experience where the audience, as receiver/viewer/reader, is immersed together in an immersive poetic experience of image, sound, language, and spatial experiences : the immersive performance poetry of Philip Meersman: a multidimensional exploration
This is a doctoral thesis in the humanities about immersive performance poetry — it has no relevance to microplastics research.
Plastic waste micro-management towards innovative sustainable living in inspiring art practice
This paper is not directly about microplastic science; it describes a participatory art project in a Malaysian village where artists and communities collaborated to manage plastic waste and raise awareness about plastic pollution through sustainable art practices.
From Trash to Fashion: Understanding Wearable Art as Environmental Activism
This paper examines wearable art projects that incorporate plastic waste as a form of environmental activism and material rhetoric, arguing that fashioning trash into garments makes ecological crises tangible and challenges consumer culture through aesthetic engagement.
Reverse Archaeology: Synthetic Surrogate as Ghosting Object
This fine arts paper examines how synthetic plastics have been used as surrogates for natural materials in museum conservation and art, and reflects on the irony that these supposedly preservation-oriented substitutes have become persistent environmental pollutants. It engages with the cultural dimensions of plastic's dual legacy as both material innovation and environmental burden.
GRETA//A PLASTIC POEM: An Integrated Approach to the Vibrant Matter of Voice, Deep Listening, and Somatic Movement in Sonic Performance Art as Plastic Activism
This arts and performance studies paper analyzes a sonic performance artwork called GRETA//A PLASTIC POEM that uses voice, movement, and sound to explore plastic pollution as an act of environmental activism. It is a cultural studies paper and not a scientific study. Art-based activism can play a role in raising public awareness about plastic pollution.
Living in the Plastic Age
This interdisciplinary work examines plastic pollution from societal and environmental perspectives, arguing that ubiquitous plastic waste and its conversion to microplastics has become so pervasive in shaping human-nature relationships that it defines a distinct 'Plastic Age,' and exploring implications for human health and pathways toward systemic change.
The concept of plasticology
This conceptual paper introduces "plasticology" as a proposed interdisciplinary field that integrates the natural sciences, social sciences, and arts to study the full relationship between humans and synthetic plastics in the environment. The authors argue that microplastic and nanoplastic research must include social dimensions — such as behavior patterns and public awareness — alongside chemistry, ecotoxicology, and environmental science to fully understand and address plastic pollution. They highlight art-science collaboration as a potentially valuable tool for building public awareness and monitoring societal responses to plastic contamination.
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.
Défragmenter notre personnalité par le dialogue art-science : pour une co-énonciation écologique, transformative et une éthique joyeuse, allant de soi
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a French-language philosophical essay on personal ecological ethics, proposing that individuals can develop a spontaneous, joyful environmental ethic through inner harmony achieved by integrating scientific and artistic sensibilities.
Superficial or Substantial: Why Care about Microplastics in the Anthropocene?
This viewpoint paper argues that microplastics represent a genuinely significant environmental threat rather than a superficial concern, examining the scientific evidence and social dimensions of the issue. The authors make the case for treating microplastic pollution as a priority environmental challenge in the Anthropocene.
On the issue of microplastics in the environment
This paper examines the origins of microplastic pollution, arguing that its emergence is not solely attributable to polymer chemistry advances and cannot be explained simply by physicochemical degradation processes acting on plastic materials.
Plastic Humanities: Revaluing Humanistic Inquiry in the Plastic Age
This humanities essay argued for the value of humanistic inquiry in addressing the environmental and cultural consequences of the 'Plastic Age,' proposing the concept of 'plastic humanities' as an interdisciplinary framework. The work makes the case that understanding plastics' social and cultural dimensions is essential alongside scientific approaches.
PhEMaterialist encounters with glitter: the materialisation of ethics, politics and care in arts-based research
This arts and social science paper examines how glitter — a form of microplastic widely used in crafts, cosmetics, and children's activities — raises ethical and political questions about everyday material consumption. While framed as sociological theory rather than toxicology, it highlights that glitter is a tangible form of microplastic pollution generated by cultural practices.
Microplastics Found in Human Embryo
This brief describes an artwork titled 'Microplastics Found in Human Embryo' created to communicate the environmental threat posed by microplastic pollution. The piece uses art to make the invisible visible, helping audiences emotionally engage with scientific findings about microplastic contamination of the human body.
The Effects of Microplastic and Nano Plastic Particles on the Environment and the Human Body
This paper reviews the current evidence on the effects of microplastic and nanoplastic particles on both the environment and human health, noting that the topic has been underexplored partly due to scientific complexity and the influence of large industrial interests.
Environmental Art and Falling from the Sky
This piece is an artistic and reflective essay examining how environmental art engages with the theme of things falling from the sky — rain, pollution, debris — as a metaphor for atmospheric contamination including microplastics. It functions as a cultural commentary rather than an empirical research study.
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.