A review on microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment: Their occurrence, exposure routes, toxic studies, and potential effects on human health

S Sangkham, O Faikhaw, N Munkong, P Sakunkoo… - Marine pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) are emerging environmental pollutants,
having a major ecotoxicological concern to humans and many other biotas, especially …

Microplastics as carriers of toxic pollutants: Source, transport, and toxicological effects

N Rafa, B Ahmed, F Zohora, J Bakya, S Ahmed… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastic pollution has emerged as a new environmental concern due to our reliance on
plastic. Recent years have seen an upward trend in scholarly interest in the topic of …

Impacts of plastic pollution on ecosystem services, sustainable development goals, and need to focus on circular economy and policy interventions

R Kumar, A Verma, A Shome, R Sinha, S Sinha… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plastic pollution is ubiquitous in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Plastic waste exposed to
the environment creates problems and is of significant concern for all life forms. Plastic …

Micro (nano) plastics pollution and human health: How plastics can induce carcinogenesis to humans?

R Kumar, C Manna, S Padha, A Verma, P Sharma… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) are key indicators of the plasticine era,
widely spread across different ecosystems. MPs and NPs become global stressors due to …

[HTML][HTML] The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on plastics and human health

PJ Landrigan, H Raps, M Cropper, C Bald… - Annals of Global …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastics in freshwater: a global review of factors affecting spatial and temporal variations

R Talbot, H Chang - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics are a pollutant of growing concern, capable of harming aquatic organisms and
entering the food web. While freshwater microplastic research has expanded in recent …

Environmental fate of microplastics in the world's third-largest river: basin-wide investigation and microplastic community analysis

W Yuan, JA Christie-Oleza, EG Xu, J Li, H Zhang… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Rivers have been recognized as major transport pathways for microplastics into the sea but
large-scale quantitative data on the environmental fate of riverine microplastics remains …

Microplastic contamination of an unconfined groundwater aquifer in Victoria, Australia

S Samandra, JM Johnston, JE Jaeger… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This is the first study to show microplastics contamination in an alluvial sedimentary aquifer
that has been capped from the atmosphere. Microplastics are often reported in biotic and …

Microplastics in aquatic environments: occurrence, accumulation, and biological effects

S Xu, J Ma, R Ji, K Pan, AJ Miao - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics, whether originating directly from industrial and household products or from the
degradation of larger plastics, are currently of intense global concern. These particles are …

Abundance, interaction, ingestion, ecological concerns, and mitigation policies of microplastic pollution in riverine ecosystem: A review

R Kumar, P Sharma, C Manna, M Jain - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Microplastics (< 5 mm) have become an environmental hazard to natural
ecosystems and humanity due to their ubiquitous presence in the environment, and possess …