Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

Increasing production of synthetic plastics and poor management of plastic wastes have
dramatically increased the amount of plastics in the environment. In 2014, at the first United …

Microplastics, as a group of emerging contaminants, are widely present in environmental
media and have the potential to endanger the ecological environment and human health …

Microplastics are ubiquitous and affect all environments, including rivers. In recent years the
number of studies about microplastics in rivers has strongly increased. But still many …

Littered plastics are partly introduced into water bodies, ultimately transporting this waste to
the shores and oceans. At the shore, ultraviolet (UV) radiation (also present in other …

Plastic pollution has been the focus of attention in recent years, with research on micro-&
nano-plastics increasing exponentially. Nevertheless, several challenges associated with …

Pollution of the environment with plastics has garnered significant public attention, but the
topic has also been the focus of controversy, including assertions that resources are better …

Mismanaged plastic waste (MPW) entering the riverine environment is concerning, given
that most plastic pollution never reaches the oceans, and it has a severe negative impact on …

Due to its widespread occurrence in practically all environmental sectors, including the
terrestrial, marine, and atmospheric, microplastics (MP) have transitioned from an emerging …

Polymers are omnipresent in our everyday lives. For specific applications, their properties
can be extensively modified by various types of additives, eg, processing stabilizers …