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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 IntroductionMicroplastic pollution has become a global issue, eliciting attention not just from the scientific community but also both from the public and governmental bodies.
Jan Danielle P. Bonita +6 more
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Embedding citizens within airborne microplastic and microfibre research
Cambridge Prisms: Plastics, 2023 Microplastics are ubiquitous in our environment but their presence in air is less well understood. Homes are likely a key source of airborne microplastics and microfibres to the environment owing to the frequent use and storage of plastics and textiles ...
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Identification and Characterization of Microplastics on the Surface Water in Laguna de Bay, Philippines [PDF]
Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 2023 Laguna de Bay is the largest lake in the Philippines. It is surrounded by developing cities that pollute the lake with plastics from different industrial and domestic activities.
C. C. Deocaris, M. C. Fernandez, A. R. Lee, S. L. A. Miao and J. B. P. Padolina
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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022 Microplastics are ubiquitous in soil ecosystems all over the world through source and migration. It is even estimated that the content of microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems exceeds the number of microplastics entering sea ecosystems.
Huirong Yang +5 more
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Wastewater treatment alters microbial colonization of microplastics.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Microplastics are ubiquitous contaminants in aquatic habitats globally, and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are point sources of microplastics. Within aquatic habitats microplastics are colonized by microbial biofilms, which can include pathogenic ...
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Environmental Challenges, 2021 With water treatment plants providing a viable solution for removal of microplastics from the environment, this review examines the overall and stage-wise efficiency of various water treatment technologies in removing microplastics and the technologies ...
Kuok Ho Daniel Tang, Tony Hadibarata
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Cambridge Prisms: Plastics, 2023 Plastic production has greatly increased in the past decades and has become central to modern human life. Realization is dawning that plastics break down into smaller pieces resulting in micro-or nanoplastics (MNP) that can enter humans directly via the environment. Indeed, MNP have been detected in every part of the human body, including the placenta,
Hofstede, Lars T. +2 more
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A Rapid Method for Detecting Microplastics Based on Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Technology (FLIM)
Toxics, 2022 With the increasing use and release of plastic products, microplastics have rapidly accumulated in ecological environments. When microplastics enter the food chain, they cause serious harm to organisms and humans.
Fang Zhou +3 more
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Yankuang ceshi, 2022 BACKGROUND Microplastics, defined as the plastic material with a size of < 5mm, have been widely attracting attention due to the high mobility and strong affinity toward pollutants.
HU Tingting, CHEN Jiawei
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MethodsX, 2020 Microplastics (MPs) were identified as one of the major environmental threats. The work plastic comes form the Greek term plastikos, which means that it can remain shaped in various systems. Global plastic production did hit approximately 348 million tonnes in 2017, being China the largest producer responsible of 27% of worlwide pollution.
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