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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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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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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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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Up and away: ontogenic transference as a pathway for aerial dispersal of microplastics [PDF]
, 2018 Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous pollutants found in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. With so many MPs in aquatic systems it is inevitable that they will be ingested by aquatic organisms, and be transferred up through the food chain ...
Amanda Callaghan +7 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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Identification and quantification of microplastics in wastewater using focal plane array-based reflectance micro-FT-IR imaging [PDF]
, 2015 Microplastics (
Agilent Technologies +68 more
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Current Biology, 2017 Galloway and Lewis discuss marine microplastics and their devastating effects on ocean ecosystems.
Galloway, T, Lewis, C
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What goes in, must come out:combining scat-based molecular diet analysis and quantification of ingested microplastics in a marine top predator [PDF]
, 2019 Context: Microplastics (plastic particles <5 mm in size) are highly available for ingestion by a wide range of organisms, either through direct consumption or indirectly, via trophic transfer, from prey to predator.
Bennett, Kimberley A. +6 more
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The vertical distribution and biological transport of marine microplastics across the epipelagic and mesopelagic water column. [PDF]
, 2019 Plastic waste has been documented in nearly all types of marine environments and has been found in species spanning all levels of marine food webs. Within these marine environments, deep pelagic waters encompass the largest ecosystems on Earth. We lack a
Choy, C Anela +10 more
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