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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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Environmental Health, 2023 Microplastics are ubiquitous in the global environment. As a typical emerging pollutant, its potential health hazards have been widely concerning. In this brief paper, we introduce the source, identification, toxicity, and health hazard of microplastics ...
Yue Li +5 more
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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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Nanoplastics: From tissue accumulation to cell translocation into Mytilus galloprovincialis hemocytes. resilience of immune cells exposed to nanoplastics and nanoplastics plus Vibrio splendidus combination [PDF]
, 2020 Plastic litter is an issue of global concern. In this work Mytilus galloprovincialis was used to study the distribution and effects of polystyrene nanoplastics (PS NPs) of different sizes (50 nm, 100 nm and 1 mu m) on immune cells.
Figueras, A. +5 more
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Microplastics: A Real Global Threat for Environment and Food Safety: A State of the Art Review
Nutrients, 2023 Microplastics are small plastic particles that come from the degradation of plastics, ubiquitous in nature and therefore affect both wildlife and humans.
Khaled Ziani +7 more
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Micro- and nanoplastic pollution of freshwater and wastewater treatment systems [PDF]
, 2017 Plastic waste is a widespread and persistent global challenge with negative impacts on the environment, economy, human health and aesthetics. Plastic pollution has been a focus of environmental research over the past few decades, particularly in relation
Blair, Reina +3 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 ...
John J Kelly +5 more
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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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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 The distribution and abundance of microplastics into the world are so extensive that many scientists use them as key indicators of the recent and contemporary period defining a new historical epoch: The Plasticene.
C. Campanale +4 more
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Science of the Total Environment, 2023 Literature regarding microplastics in the atmosphere has advanced in recent years. However, studies have been undertaken in isolation with minimal collaboration and exploration of the relationships between air, deposition and dust.
Stacey O’Brien +8 more
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