Environmental fate, aging, toxicity and potential remediation strategies of microplastics in soil environment: Current progress and future perspectives

N Ali, W Liu, A Zeb, R Shi, Y Lian, Q Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are small plastic debris (< 5 mm) that result from the fragmentation of
plastic due to physical and physiochemical processes. MPs are emerging pollutants that …

Microplastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems: Global implications and sustainable solutions

A Zeb, W Liu, N Ali, R Shi, Q Wang, J Wang, J Li… - Journal of hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MPs) pollution has become a global environmental concern with significant
impacts on ecosystems and human health. Although MPs have been widely detected in …

Microplastic pollution: an emerging threat to terrestrial plants and insights into its remediation strategies

A Kumari, VD Rajput, SS Mandzhieva, S Rajput… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous and constitute a global hazard to the environment
because of their robustness, resilience, and long-term presence in the ecosystem. For now …

Microplastics: a review of their impacts on different life forms and their removal methods

FP Dad, WD Khan, MB Kirkham, N Bolan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
The pollution of microplastics (MPs) is a worldwide major concern, as they have become a
major part of our food chain. MPs enter our ecosystem via different pathways, including …

Environmental microplastics: Classification, sources, fates, and effects on plants

Q Gan, J Cui, B Jin - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution has become a global concern due to the generation of extensive
plastic waste and products (370 million metric tons in 2020) that are difficult to biodegrade …

Activities of microplastics (MPs) in agricultural soil: a review of MPs pollution from the perspective of agricultural ecosystems

T Jin, J Tang, H Lyu, L Wang, AB Gillmore… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microplastics are emerging persistent pollutants which have attracted increasing attention
worldwide. Although microplastics have been widely detected in aquatic environments, their …

Microplastics in soil: Impacts and microbial diversity and degradation

K Paramdeep, K Singh, B Singh - Pedosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are plastic particles less than 5 mm in size that have become a major
environmental pollutant due to their ubiquitous and persistent nature. Microplastic …

Microplastic pollution in soils, plants, and animals: a review of distributions, effects and potential mechanisms

X Chang, Y Fang, Y Wang, F Wang, L Shang… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing production of synthetic plastics and poor management of plastic wastes have
dramatically increased the amount of plastics in the environment. In 2014, at the first United …

Emerging microplastics in the environment: properties, distributions, and impacts

K Hu, Y Yang, J Zuo, W Tian, Y Wang, X Duan, S Wang - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are emerging and recalcitrant micropollutants in the environment, which
have attracted soaring interests from a wide range of research disciplines. To this end …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastics in the soil environment: A critical review

M Sajjad, Q Huang, S Khan, MA Khan, Y Liu… - … Technology & Innovation, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution of microplastics (MPs) is known to be anthropogenically mediated
menace to biosphere and becoming a debatable concern globally. Large quantities of …