The laundering of synthetic fabrics has been identified as an important and diffuse source of
microplastic (< 5 mm) fibre contamination to wastewater systems. Home laundering can …

Environmental context Microplastic fibres (MPFs) released from textiles are routinely found
throughout the environment as an indicator of human impacts. The presence of MPFs in …

The increased use of synthetic textiles in the last decades, coupled with recent emphasis on
the accumulation of (micro) plastic across multiple environmental compartments, has …

Abstract Microplastics (< 5 mm) are ubiquitous contaminants of growing concern. These
have been found in multiple environmental compartments, including remote sites where …

Anthropogenic development has released large amounts of microplastics (MPs), which are
carriers of migratory heavy metals, into the environment, and heavy metal adsorption by MPs …

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are important routes for releasing microplastics into
the environment, with the produced sludge acting as a recipient of microplastics from …

Microplastics (MPs) that have accumulated in the environment are emerging as
contaminating pollutants due to their interactions with metal ions. MPs change the migration …

Due to an assumed lack of anionic binding sites (most plastics are non-polar), scientists long
considered virgin particulate plastics inert towards metal ions. However, we proved …

The microplastics (MPs) serving as the “minor but efficient” vector and carriers of the
environmental heavy metals (HMs) were broadly disseminated in the freshwater and marine …

The ubiquity of plastic materials in the environment has been, for long, a matter of
discussion. Smaller particles, named microplastics (< 5 mm), gained attention more recently …