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Analysis, Prevalence & Impact of Microplastics in Freshwater and Estuarine Environments Evidence Review 2 What are the sources of the microplastics found in freshwater environments? [PDF]
, 2020 This Rapid Evidence Assessment used the systematic review procedure to assess the current evidence available on the sources of the microplastics found in freshwater and estuarine environments.
Murphy, JF +6 more
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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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Current Biology, 2017 Galloway and Lewis discuss marine microplastics and their devastating effects on ocean ecosystems.
Galloway, T, Lewis, C
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Research progress on microplastics pollution in polar oceans
, 2023 Microplastics pollution in the oceans has become a new environmental threat in recent years. Microplastics have been found even in remote polar sea areas, including in water, sediment, sea ice, marine snow, and marine organisms in polar sea areas.
Weiwei Zhang +13 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 ...
Ben Williams +10 more
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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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Microplastics and human health
Science, 2021 Knowledge gaps should be addressed to ascertain the health risks of microplastics The ubiquity of microplastics (plastic particles
A. Vethaak, J. Legler
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, 2021 As microplastics may bring about adverse effects on living organisms, it is important to establish more precise quantification approaches to better understand their dynamics. One method to determine the concentration of microplastics is to estimate their
田野入, 開 +14 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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Microplastics in Sewage Sludge of Wastewater Treatment
, 2023 Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have been regarded as vital sinks and sources of microplastics from urban waters to the environment. Microplastics could be removed and migrated to the sewage sludge in the WWTPs.
Zhang, YT +5 more
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