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Presence of airborne microplastics in human lung tissue.
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 Plastics are ubiquitously used by societies, but most of the plastic waste is deposited in landfills and in the natural environment. Their degradation into submillimetre fragments, called microplastics, is a growing concern due to potential adverse ...
L. F. Amato-Lourenço +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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Human Consumption of Microplastics.
Environmental Science and Technology, 2019 Microplastics are ubiquitous across ecosystems, yet the exposure risk to humans is unresolved. Focusing on the American diet, we evaluated the number of microplastic particles in commonly consumed foods in relation to their recommended daily intake.
K. Cox +5 more
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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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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 exposure to microplastics: An overview on possible human health effects.
Science of the Total Environment, 2019 Microplastics are ubiquitous environmental contaminants leading to inevitable human exposure. Even so, little is known about the effects of microplastics in human health.
J. C. Prata +4 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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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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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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River export of macro- and microplastics to seas by sources worldwide
Nature Communications, 2023 Seas are polluted with macro- (>5 mm) and microplastics (
M. Strokal +5 more
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