Water treatment plants' effluents are hotspots of microplastics (MPs) and microfibres (MFs)
released into the aquatic environment because they were not designed to capture these …

In urban environments, particularly areas under reconstruction, metals, organic pollutants
(OP), and microplastics (MP), are released in large amounts due to heavy traffic. Road …

Highway stormwater (HSW) runoff is a significant pathway for transferring microplastics from
land-based sources to the other surrounding environmental compartments. Small …

Microplastics in urban stormwater is one of the main sources of microplastics in aquatic
systems, however, has rarely been reviewed systematically. Microplastic abundance ranges …

Urban stormwater runoff is an important pathway for the introduction of microplastics and
other anthropogenic pollutants into aquatic environments. Highly variable concentrations of …

The occurrence of microplastics into the ecosystem has become and eminent threat for the
environment as well as gets extensive attention in recent times. Microplastic existence has …

Microplastics (MPs), or plastic particles that are less than 5 mm in diameter, are an emerging
threat to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems because of their potential toxicity and their …