Enzymes' power for plastics degradation

V Tournier, S Duquesne, F Guillamot… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plastics are everywhere in our modern way of living, and their production keeps increasing
every year, causing major environmental concerns. Nowadays, the end-of-life management …

Microplastics in human food chains: Food becoming a threat to health safety

A Al Mamun, TAE Prasetya, IR Dewi… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
While versatile application of plastics has generated huge benefits in our life, the 'plastic end-
of-life'comes with downsides of emerging concern is plastic particles within all parts of …

Chemical analysis of microplastics and nanoplastics: challenges, advanced methods, and perspectives

NP Ivleva - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microplastics and nanoplastics have become emerging particulate anthropogenic pollutants
and rapidly turned into a field of growing scientific and public interest. These tiny plastic …

Chemical and biological catalysis for plastics recycling and upcycling

LD Ellis, NA Rorrer, KP Sullivan, M Otto… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Plastics pollution is causing an environmental crisis, prompting the development of new
approaches for recycling, and upcycling. Here, we review challenges and opportunities in …

“Functional upcycling” of polymer waste towards the design of new materials

O Guselnikova, O Semyonov, E Sviridova… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Diversification of polymer waste recycling is one of the solutions to improve the current
environmental scenario. Upcycling is a promising strategy for converting polymer waste into …

The soil plastisphere

MC Rillig, SW Kim, YG Zhu - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the effects of plastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems is a priority in
environmental research. A central aspect of this suite of pollutants is that it entails particles …

Integrated energy conversion and storage devices: Interfacing solar cells, batteries and supercapacitors

L Fagiolari, M Sampò, A Lamberti, J Amici… - Energy Storage …, 2022 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen a rapid technological rush aimed at the development of new
devices for the photovoltaic conversion of solar energy and for the electrochemical storage …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of plastic pollution on ecosystem services, sustainable development goals, and need to focus on circular economy and policy interventions

R Kumar, A Verma, A Shome, R Sinha, S Sinha… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plastic pollution is ubiquitous in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Plastic waste exposed to
the environment creates problems and is of significant concern for all life forms. Plastic …

[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 …

Presence of airborne microplastics in human lung tissue

LF Amato-Lourenço, R Carvalho-Oliveira… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plastics are ubiquitously used by societies, but most of the plastic waste is deposited in
landfills and in the natural environment. Their degradation into submillimetre fragments …