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 …

The ubiquitous problems of microplastics in waters are receiving global attention as
microplastics can harm aquatic organisms, and finally can accumulate in the human body …

Land-based plastic waste, carried to the sea through rivers, is considered a main source of
marine plastic pollution. However, most plastics that leak into the environment never make it …

Studies on microplastic (MP) pollution in lakes are recent, although the problem of MP
particles in the oceans was first discovered in the 1970s. The first study on lakes was …

Microplastics, as defined here as plastics with a diameter of< 5 mm, can impose severely
detrimental impacts on the environment and can now be commonly found in different water …

Microplastics have been reported from various ecosystems including lakes, ponds,
wetlands, mountains, and forests globally. Recent research works showed microplastic …

In this study, we assess the magnitude, type, and sources of microplastic (MP) in lake bottom
sediments collected from freshwater Anchar Lake, located in the Kashmir Valley, Northwest …

Pollution by microplastics is of increasing concern due to their ubiquitous presence in most
biological and environmental media, their potential toxicity and their ability to carry other …

Microplastic pollution of aquatic systems is a widely recognised environmental challenge. In
this study, the occurrence, abundance, distribution and chemical nature of microplastics …

With the focus on microplastic in current research, macroplastic is often not further
considered. Thus, this review paper is the first to analyse the entry paths, accumulation …