[HTML][HTML] Bioavailability and effects of microplastics on marine zooplankton: A review

ZLR Botterell, N Beaumont, T Dorrington… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microplastics are abundant and widespread in the marine environment. They are a
contaminant of global environmental and economic concern. Due to their small size a wide …

Marine microplastics as vectors of major ocean pollutants and its hazards to the marine ecosystem and humans

TSM Amelia, WMAWM Khalik, MC Ong… - Progress in Earth and …, 2021 - Springer
Microplastic pollutes water, land, air, and groundwater environments not only visually but
also ecologically for plants, animals, and humans. Microplastic has been reported to act as …

[HTML][HTML] Are we underestimating microplastic abundance in the marine environment? A comparison of microplastic capture with nets of different mesh-size

PK Lindeque, M Cole, RL Coppock, CN Lewis… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastic debris is ubiquitous and yet sampling, classifying and enumerating this prolific
pollutant in marine waters has proven challenging. Typically, waterborne microplastic …

Fate of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants and their environmental dispersion with effluent and sludge

C Edo, M González-Pleiter, F Leganés… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work studied the occurrence of microplastics in primary and secondary effluents and
mixed sludge of a WWTP as well as in processed heat-dried sludge marketed as soil …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments from the Great Australian Bight

J Barrett, Z Chase, J Zhang, MMB Holl… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Interest in understanding the extent of plastic and specifically microplastic pollution has
increased on a global scale. Still one large piece of the overall puzzle currently lacks: how …

Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: a review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions

HS Auta, CU Emenike, SH Fauziah - Environment international, 2017 - Elsevier
The presence of microplastics in the marine environment poses a great threat to the entire
ecosystem and has received much attention lately as the presence has greatly impacted …

Global transportation of plastics and microplastics: A critical review of pathways and influences

L Su, X Xiong, Y Zhang, C Wu, X Xu, C Sun… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid development of modern society has largely increased the usage of plastic.
Concerns arise when vast amount of plastic waste has been generated and disposed. The …

Interactions of microplastic debris throughout the marine ecosystem

TS Galloway, M Cole, C Lewis - Nature ecology & evolution, 2017 - nature.com
Marine microscopic plastic (microplastic) debris is a modern societal issue, illustrating the
challenge of balancing the convenience of plastic in daily life with the prospect of causing …

Microplastics pollution in different aquatic environments and biota: A review of recent studies

S Rezania, J Park, MFM Din, SM Taib… - Marine pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are generated from plastic and have negative impact to our environment
due to high level of fragmentation. They can be originated from various sources in different …

Microplastic abundance, characteristics, and removal in wastewater treatment plants in a coastal city of China

Z Long, Z Pan, W Wang, J Ren, X Yu, L Lin, H Lin… - Water Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Studying the abundance, characteristics, and removal of microplastics (MPs) in wastewater
treatment plants (WWTPs) in coastal cities is of great significance for understanding the …