Biopolymers production from microalgae and cyanobacteria cultivated in wastewater: Recent advances

SG Mastropetros, K Pispas, D Zagklis, SS Ali… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic materials are used to manufacture a broad variety of items with a short useful
lifespan, resulting in significant amounts of waste material generation. This form of waste is …

Emerging threats of microplastics on marine environment: A critical review of toxicity measurement, policy practice gap and future research direction

T Biswas, SC Pal - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
The concentration of microplastics (MPs) in the ocean is increasing at an alarming rate,
which has created numerous hazardous issues for the marine animals and micro …

[HTML][HTML] A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world's oceans—Urgent solutions required

M Eriksen, W Cowger, LM Erdle, S Coffin… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
As global awareness, science, and policy interventions for plastic escalate, institutions
around the world are seeking preventative strategies. Central to this is the need for precise …

Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris

MLA Kaandorp, D Lobelle, C Kehl, HA Dijkstra… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The fate of plastics that enter the ocean is a longstanding puzzle. Recent estimates of the
oceanic input of plastic are one to two orders of magnitude larger than the amount measured …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoplastics and ultrafine microplastic in the Dutch Wadden Sea–The hidden plastics debris?

D Materić, R Holzinger, H Niemann - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution in the marine environment has been identified as a global problem; different
polymer types and fragment sizes have been detected across all marine regions, from sea …

Airborne microplastic concentrations and deposition across the Weser River catchment

S Kernchen, MGJ Löder, F Fischer, D Fischer… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) appears to be omnipresent in the atmosphere, raising concerns about
dispersion across environmental compartments, ecological consequences and human …

A multilevel dataset of microplastic abundance in the world's upper ocean and the Laurentian Great Lakes

A Isobe, T Azuma, MR Cordova, A Cózar… - Microplastics and …, 2021 - Springer
A total of 8218 pelagic microplastic samples from the world's oceans were synthesized to
create a dataset composed of raw, calibrated, processed, and gridded data which are made …

Tracking marine litter with a global ocean model: where does it go? Where does it come from?

EP Chassignet, X Xu, O Zavala-Romero - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Plastic is the most abundant type of marine litter and it is found in all of the world's oceans
and seas, even in remote areas far from human activities. It is a major concern because …

Is coastal erosion a source of marine litter pollution? Evidence of coastal dunes being a reservoir of plastics

U Andriolo, G Gonçalves - Marine pollution bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
This baseline reports scientific evidence of marine litter items embedded in the dune volume
at two study sites on the North Atlantic Portuguese coast. We described how stranded litter …

Contamination of the marine environment in Egypt and Saudi Arabia with personal protective equipment during COVID-19 pandemic: A short focus

IA Hassan, A Younis, MA Al Ghamdi… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution and its impact on marine ecosystems are major concerns globally, and the
situation was exacerbated after the outbreak of COVID-19. Clean-up campaigns took place …