The increasing use of plastic materials generates an enormous amount of waste. In the
aquatic environment, a significant part of this waste is present in the form of microplastics …

With most of the plastics ever produced now being waste, slowly degrading and fragmenting
in the environment, microplastics (MPs) have become an emerging concern regarding their …

Microplastics (MPs) have been identified as emerging environmental pollutants classified as
primary or secondary based on their source. Composition, shape, size, and colour, among …

Plastic waste pollution is one of the biggest problems in the world today. The amount of
plastic in the environment continues to increase, and human exposure to microplastic (MP) …

Microplastic research in recent years has shown that small plastic particles are found almost
everywhere we look. Besides aquatic and terrestrial environments, this also includes aquatic …

Pollution of the environment with plastics is a growing problem, and is expected to persist for
hundreds to thousands of years. As a result microplastics, plastic particles with size smaller …

Since microplastics (MPs) bring the potential risks to human health when plastics are
ingested, more needs to be known about the presence and abundance of human ingestion …

Abstract Microplastics (plastic particles< 5 mm) have received increasing attention in recent
years due to their wide distribution in the environment. A bibliometric analysis was carried …

The contamination of the environment with whole plastics or pieces thereof (microand
nanoplastics) is the subject of extensive discussion nowadays in academia and the media …

Plastics have been widely reported to be present in the environment yet there are still many
questions regarding the extent of this and the impacts these may have on both the …