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 …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric microplastics: A review on current status and perspectives

Y Zhang, S Kang, S Allen, D Allen, T Gao… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics have recently been detected in the atmosphere of urban, suburban, and even
remote areas far away from source regions of microplastics, suggesting the potential long …

Microplastics: An overview on separation, identification and characterization of microplastics

A Tirkey, LSB Upadhyay - Marine pollution bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
At present plastic residues has become grave threat to the environment. Microplastics are
plastic residues with a size< 5 mm, due to their small size it is very difficult to remove them …

A global perspective on microplastics

RC Hale, ME Seeley, MJ La Guardia… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Society has become increasingly reliant on plastics since commercial production began in
about 1950. Their versatility, stability, light weight, and low production costs have fueled …

Microplastics in soils: A review of methods, occurrence, fate, transport, ecological and environmental risks

Y Zhou, J Wang, M Zou, Z Jia, S Zhou, Y Li - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The global prevalence of microplastics (MPs) poses a potential threat and unpredictable risk
to the function and health of environmental systems. However, the research progress of soil …

Abundance, interaction, ingestion, ecological concerns, and mitigation policies of microplastic pollution in riverine ecosystem: A review

R Kumar, P Sharma, C Manna, M Jain - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Microplastics (< 5 mm) have become an environmental hazard to natural
ecosystems and humanity due to their ubiquitous presence in the environment, and possess …

Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization

G Suaria, A Achtypi, V Perold, JR Lee, A Pierucci… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Microfibers are ubiquitous contaminants of emerging concern. Traditionally ascribed to the
“microplastics” family, their widespread occurrence in the natural environment is commonly …

Environmental fate and impacts of microplastics in soil ecosystems: Progress and perspective

W Wang, J Ge, X Yu, H Li - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The wide and intensive application of plastics and their derived products has resulted in
global environmental contamination of plastic waste. Large-sized plastic litter can be …

Finding microplastics in soils: a review of analytical methods

JN Möller, MGJ Löder… - Environmental science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Research on microplastics in soils is still uncommon, and the existing publications are often
incomparable due to the use of different sampling, processing, and analytical methods …

[HTML][HTML] Drinking plastics?–Quantification and qualification of microplastics in drinking water distribution systems by µFTIR and Py-GCMS

IV Kirstein, F Hensel, A Gomiero, L Iordachescu… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
While it seems indisputable that potable water contains microplastics (MP), the actual
concentrations are much debated and reported numbers vary many orders of magnitude. It …