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Microplastic sources, formation, toxicity and remediation: a review

Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2023
Microplastic pollution is becoming a major issue for human health due to the recent discovery of microplastics in most ecosystems. Here, we review the sources, formation, occurrence, toxicity and remediation methods of microplastics. We distinguish ocean-
A. Osman, Mohamed Hosny, Abdelazeem S. Eltaweil, S. Omar, A. Elgarahy, Mohamed Farghali, P. Yap, Y. Wu, Saraswathi Nagandran, K. Batumalaie, S. Gopinath, O. John, M. Sekar, Trideep Saikia, Puvanan Karunanithi, M. Hatta, K. Akinyede   +16 more
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Increasing soil microplastic diversity decreases community biomass via its impact on the most dominant species

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Ecosystems experience strong microplastic pollution and the ecological impacts of microplastic pollution have received increasing attention. While an ecosystem can be contaminated by different numbers of microplastics, no study has tested the impacts of ...
Lin-Xuan He, Xiao-Xiao Cao, Sergio R. Roiloa, Xiao-Mei Zhang, Wei Xue, Jing-Pin Lei, Fei-Hai Yu   +6 more
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Marine microplastics as vectors of major ocean pollutants and its hazards to the marine ecosystem and humans

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2021
Microplastic pollutes water, land, air, and groundwater environments not only visually but also ecologically for plants, animals, and humans. Microplastic has been reported to act as vectors by sorbing pollutants and contributing to the bioaccumulation ...
Tan Suet May Amelia, Wan Mohd Afiq Wan Mohd Khalik, Meng Chuan Ong, Yi Ta Shao, Hui-Juan Pan, Kesaven Bhubalan   +5 more
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Combined Approaches to Predict Microplastic Emissions Within an Urbanized Estuary (Warnow, Southwestern Baltic Sea)

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021
Microplastic river emissions are known to be one of the major sources for marine microplastic pollution. Especially urbanized estuaries localized at the land-sea interface and subjected to microplastic emissions from various sources exhibit a high ...
Sarah Piehl, Rahel Hauk, Esther Robbe, Esther Robbe, Boris Richter, Frauke Kachholz, Jannik Schilling, Robin Lenz, Dieter Fischer, Franziska Fischer, Matthias Labrenz, Gerald Schernewski, Gerald Schernewski   +12 more
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Microplastic occurrence in fish species from the Iquitos region in Peru, western Amazonia [PDF]

Acta Amazonica, 2023
The contamination of aquatic environments by microplastic has become a major threat to biodiversity. The presence of microplastic is documented in the aquatic fauna of the oceans, but, in the Amazon basin, reports on microplastic occurrence are few.
Rommel R. ROJAS, Carlos ARANGO-MORA, Christian NOLORBE-PAYAHUA, Mishelly MEDINA, Melly VASQUEZ, Josias FLORES, Fiorela MURAYARI, Claudia VÁSQUEZ, Valeri de ALMEIDA, Wilfredo RAMOS, Enrique RIOS ISERN, Jorge MARAPARA DEL AGUILA, Juan C. CASTRO, Javier DEL ÁGUILA, Felicia DIAZ JARAMA, Maria VASCONCELOS-SOUZA   +15 more
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Health Effects of Microplastic Exposures: Current Issues and Perspectives in South Korea

Yonsei medical journal, 2023
Microplastics are environmental pollutants that prevail in the oceans, remote islands, and polar regions. Exposure to microplastics presents a major emerging threat to the ecosystems due to their potential adverse effects.
Yongjin Lee, Jaelim Cho, Jungwoo Sohn, Changsoo Kim   +3 more
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Lifetime Accumulation of Microplastic in Children and Adults

Environmental Science and Technology, 2021
Human exposure to microplastic is recognized as a global problem, but the uncertainty, variability, and lifetime accumulation are unresolved. We provide a probabilistic lifetime exposure model for children and adults, which accounts for intake via eight ...
Nur Hazimah Mohamed Nor, M. Kooi, N. J. Diepens, A. Koelmans   +3 more
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Irrigation-facilitated low-density polyethylene microplastic vertical transport along soil profile: An empirical model developed by column experiment

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022
The emerging issue of microplastic pollution of agricultural soils derives from the intensive utilization of plastic mulching film. Although surface runoff may transport microplastic off-site, infiltration may also facilitate microplastic transport from ...
Zeyu Zhao, Keyue Zhao, Taishuo Zhang, Yiwen Xu, Ronglong Chen, Sha Xue, Mengjuan Liu, Darrell Tang, Xiaomei Yang, Violette Giessen   +9 more
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SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF MICROPLASTIC FIBERS RELEASED DURING LAUNDRY WASHING CYCLE [PDF]

Advanced Engineering Letters, 2023
Modern life and contemporary materials have brought ubiquitous microplastic particles into our surroundings. Many researchers have focused their research towards investigating sources, pathways, toxic effects and mitigation possibilities of ...
Jovan Rackov, Tamara Erceg, Milica Živković, Vesna Teofilović   +3 more
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Microplastic burden in marine benthic invertebrates depends on species traits and feeding ecology within biogeographical provinces

Nature Communications, 2023
The microplastic body burden of marine animals is often assumed to reflect levels of environmental contamination, yet variations in feeding ecology and regional trait expression could also affect a species’ risk of contaminant uptake.
Adam Porter, Jasmin A. Godbold, Ceri N. Lewis, Georgie Savage, Martin Solan, Tamara S. Galloway   +5 more
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