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Hanwen Chen, Yinghuan Qin, Hao Huang and Weiyi Xu
Based on statistical data of the average abundance of microplastics from 37 global freshwater locations up to November 2019, we classified the freshwater bodies according to developments in their local countries and geographic positions. We highlighted t...
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Peiqin Liu, Hongping Liao, Yongyan Deng, Wenqi Zhang, Zhixi Zhou, Di Sun, Zhixin Ke, Aiguo Zhou and Huijuan Tang
Microplastics (MPs) have been given considerable attention due to their risk to aquatic organisms in marine environments. In this study, MPs? abundance and their potential correlation with environmental factors were investigated from 26 sites in Daya Bay...
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Che Abd Rahim Mohamed, Aqilah Nur Shahruddin, Siriporn Pradit, Pei Sun Loh, Thongchai Nitiratsuwan, Thawanrat Kobkeatthawin, Prakrit Noppradit, Thi Phuong Quynh Le, Chantha Oeurng, Ty Sok, Choon Weng Lee, Chui Wei Bong, Xixi Lu, Gusti Z. Anshari, Selvaraj Kandasamy and Jianjun Wang
Microplastics are widespread in coastal and marine environments, and sediments serve as a sink for microplastics. In this study, four sediment cores were collected from the Kuala Gula Mangrove area. The abundance of microplastics in mangrove sediments ra...
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Bo?e Lucin, Zoran Carija, Marta Alvir and Ivana Lucin
In recent years, microplastic pollution has been given increasing attention in marine environments due to the hazard it poses for aquatic organisms. Plastic pipes are now being widely used in shipbuilding, and due to easy processing, they are often insta...
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Alejandra Elisei Schicchi, Diego Moreira, Patricia Eisenberg and Claudia G. Simionato
Information about the sources, sinks, dynamics, and how environmental variables affect the transport of microplastics (MPs) from continental deposits to marine systems is still limited. Most of the knowledge about the distribution of plastic in the ocean...
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Igor Zhdanov, Svetlana Pakhomova, Anfisa Berezina, Ksenia Silvestrova, Natalia Stepanova and Evgeniy Yakushev
Plastic is recognized as a threat to marine ecosystems, and estimating the level of plastic and microplastics (MPs) pollution of the World Ocean is, nowadays, the goal of many studies. However, the use of different methods for the sampling and analysis o...
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Agnieszka Medynska-Juraszek and Anna Szczepanska
Agricultural soils are considered as ?hot-spots? of plastic particles; however, due to a lack of standardized method of microplastic determination in soils, as well as no legal regulations requiring the monitoring of the soil environment in the context o...
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Le Duc Quyen and Jun Myoung Choi
The presence of microplastics has been reported in most marine environments. Their accumulation can affect the marine ecosystem, and their consumption by small organisms of various sizes can indirectly affect human beings who consume them. Recent observa...
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Abir Mahmud, Mustafa Md Wasif, Hridoy Roy, Fareen Mehnaz, Tasnim Ahmed, Md. Nahid Pervez, Vincenzo Naddeo and Md. Shahinoor Islam
Microplastics? dangers and the absence of effective regulation technologies have risen to prominence as a worldwide issue in recent years. South Asian countries, such as Bangladesh, are among the most threatened nations to face the drastic consequence of...
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Rui-Ping Liu, Fei Liu, Ping-Ping Sun, El-Wardany R.M., Ying Dong, Yi-Bing Zhang, Hua-Qing Chen and Jian-Gang Jiao
Microplastics (MPs) are widely distributed in the environment. MP pollution has been found in the environment globally, which directly threatens human health. It is of great importance to study the influencing factors and mechanism of MP migration in the...
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Joana C. Prata, Maria J. Manana, João P. da Costa, Armando C. Duarte and Teresa Rocha-Santos
Small microplastics (<1 mm) comprise a great fraction of microplastics (<5 mm) found in the environment and are often overlooked due to the constrains of transporting and filtering large volumes of water in grab samplings. The objective of this work was ...
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Giuseppe Andrea De Lucia, Alvise Vianello, Andrea Camedda, Danilo Vani, Paolo Tomassetti, Stefania Coppa, Luca Palazzo, Marina Amici, Giulia Romanelli, Giorgio Zampetti, Anna Maria Cicero, Serena Carpentieri, Stefania Di Vito and Marco Matiddi
The abundance and distribution of microplastics (MP) were evaluated in six ?clean? sites (Italian minor islands) and in two ?polluted? areas (near the mouth of two major Italian rivers). Samples of MP, plankton and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) we...
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Giuseppe Andrea De Lucia, Alvise Vianello, Andrea Camedda, Danilo Vani, Paolo Tomassetti, Stefania Coppa, Luca Palazzo, Marina Amici, Giulia Romanelli, Giorgio Zampetti, Anna Maria Cicero, Serena Carpentieri, Stefania Di Vito and Marco Matiddi
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Pattira Kasamesiri, Ruamruedee Panchan and Wipavee Thaimuangphol
Microplastic pollution has been identified as a potential threat to the aquatic environment and humans globally, with widespread occurrence in ecosystems, including reservoirs that constitute a key role in ecosystem services for humans. However, the eval...
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Luu Viet Dung, Truong Huu Duc, Le Thi Khanh Linh, Trinh Thi Dieu Ly, Hoang Anh Duong and Nguyen Thi My Hao
Plastics are essential materials that play critical roles in people?s lives in the modern world. However, plastic pollution in the ocean has become a critical environmental problem due to the fact of its durability and long life span. In the present stud...
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Jingwu Ma, Renfeng Ma, Qi Pan, Xianjun Liang, Jianqing Wang and Xinxin Ni
With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, human activities have caused marine pollution in three ways: land source, air source, and sea source, leading to the problem of marine environments. Remote sensing, with its wide coverage ...
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Cristiana Guerranti, Guido Perra, Tania Martellini, Luisa Giari and Alessandra Cincinelli
Plastic debris occurring in freshwater environments, which can either come from the surrounding terrestrial areas or transported from upstream, has been identified as one of the main sources and routes of plastic pollution in marine systems. The ocean is...
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Zhengkun Pan, Chaonan Zhang, Shaodan Wang, Di Sun, Aiguo Zhou, Shaolin Xie, Guohuan Xu and Jixing Zou
Microplastic pollution has become a major global concern. Coastal areas are densely populated with human activity, commercial enterprises, and fishing, resulting in high incidences of fish microplastic pollution. It has been shown that microplastics exis...
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Muhammad Bilal, Habib Ul Hassan, Madiha Taj, Naseem Rafiq, Ghulam Nabi, Asif Ali, Karim Gabol, Muhammad Ishaq Ali Shah, Rizwana Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Sohail and Takaomi Arai
The issue of microplastic (MP) pollution is one of the most pressing environmental problems faced today and for the future. Plastics are ubiquitous due to their exponential use and mismanagement, resulting in the accumulation of fragments across the worl...
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Artyom V. Belesov, Timofey V. Rezviy, Sergey A. Pokryshkin, Dmitry E. Lakhmanov, Dmitry G. Chukhchin and Alexandr Yu. Kozhevnikov
The Northern Dvina River flowing into the White Sea may be one of the main sources of microplastic (MP) pollution in the Arctic region. The coastal sediments of the Northern Dvina River act as an intermediate link in the transport of microplastics to the...
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