Biodegradable polymers—A review on properties, processing, and degradation mechanism

OK Cakmak - Circular Economy and Sustainability, 2024 - Springer
Pollutants in the environment are growing as a result of the use of plastic. Our environment
and food chain contain plastic particles and other pollutants made of plastic, threatening …

Occurrence and characteristics of atmospheric microplastics in Mexico City

VC Shruti, G Kutralam-Muniasamy… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
While atmospheric microplastics have attracted scientific attention as a significant source of
microplastic contamination in the environment, studies in large population centers remain …

Application of GCMS-pyrolysis to estimate the levels of microplastics in a drinking water supply system

A Gomiero, KB Øysæd, L Palmas… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Communities value water and aquatic environments for a many diverse reasons. Ensuring
safe drinking water is prioritized on the political agenda with a dedicated focus on safe and …

The plastisphere: A morphometric genetic classification of plastic pollutants in the natural environment

M Ramkumar, K Balasubramani, M Santosh… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastics are synthetic polymers that are extensively used in the modern world, and
subsequently abandoned causing severe challenges and destruction to the natural …

Integrated approach for marine litter pollution assessment in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea: Information from bottom-trawl fishing and plastic ingestion in deep-sea fish

V Sciutteri, C Pedà, F Longo, R Calogero… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine litter pollution threatens marine ecosystems and biodiversity conservation,
particularly on seafloors where all anthropogenic waste naturally sinks. In this study, we …

The microplastics: their occurrence and impacts in India—a review

K Nanthini Devi, P Raju, P Santhanam… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - Springer
Plastics are commonly occurring in the marine environments. The presence of microplastics
in most habitats in the open ocean, seas, beaches, surface waters, the water column and in …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and quantification of microplastics in surface water of a southwestern Mediterranean Bay (Al Hoceima, Morocco)

O Bouadil, M Benomar, H El Ouarghi… - Waste Management …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we evaluated the pollution in Al Hoceima Bay (Southwestern Mediterranean,
Morocco) by microplastics. Nine stations were investigated in 2019, 2020, and 2021, using …

Microplastic occurrence and hydrodynamic-sedimentary driving effects in the Bohai Strait region of China

L Zhou, C Sun, J Li, C Zhao, J Ding, W Cao… - Science of The Total …, 2025 - Elsevier
The ubiquity of microplastics in oceans has led to an increased interest in microplastics in
society. The Bohai Strait is in a key position in the Yellow and Bohai Seas and plays a key …

Microplastic in Drinking Water: A Pilot Study

E Brancaleone, D Mattei, V Fuscoletti, L Lucentini… - Microplastics, 2024 - mdpi.com
In recent years, microplastic pollution has been a hot topic as these compounds have been
used in various production contexts such as health, food or technology due to their chemical …

Size dependent ingestion and effects of microplastics on survivability, hematology and intestinal histopathology of juvenile striped catfish (Pangasianodon …

SIM Shahriar, N Islam, FJ Emon, M Ashaf-Ud-Doulah… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastic pollution is drastically increasing in aquatic ecosystems and it is assumed that
different sizes of microplastics have diverse impacts on the physiology of aquatic organisms …