Plastics and the Environment

IE Napper, RC Thompson - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Plastics are persistent and pervasive throughout the environment and have now been
reported from the deepest parts of the ocean to the tops of the highest and most remote …

Microplastics contamination in food and beverages: Direct exposure to humans

M Jin, X Wang, T Ren, J Wang… - Journal of Food …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since microplastics (MPs) bring the potential risks to human health when plastics are
ingested, more needs to be known about the presence and abundance of human ingestion …

Contamination issues as a challenge in quality control and quality assurance in microplastics analytics

JC Prata, V Reis, JP da Costa, C Mouneyrac… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastics are widely distributed environmental contaminants. To understand their
impacts on the environment and health, more high-quality results are needed. Since …

Continental microplastics: Presence, features, and environmental transport pathways

MB Alfonso, AH Arias, AC Ronda, MC Piccolo - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous contaminants of great concern for the environment. MPs'
presence and concentration in the air, soil, marine, and freshwater environments have been …

Plastic particle ingestion by wild freshwater fish: a critical review

F Collard, J Gasperi, GW Gabrielsen… - … Science & Technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Plastic pollution, especially microplastics (MP) pollution, is a hot topic in both mainstream
media and scientific literature. Although rivers are potentially the major transport pathway of …

Review of current trends, advances and analytical challenges for microplastics contamination in Latin America

G Kutralam-Muniasamy, F Pérez-Guevara… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics accumulation is an emerging environmental issue and a threat to marine life
and human health. There is a growing number of investigations on the abundance and …

Microplastic and tire wear particle occurrence in fishes from an urban estuary: Influence of feeding characteristics on exposure risk

BW Parker, BA Beckingham, BC Ingram… - Marine pollution …, 2020 - Elsevier
The influence of feeding behavior and feeding ecology on microplastic occurrence in fishes
in an urbanized estuary was studied by surveying microplastics in the digestive tracts (gut) of …

First evidence of microplastics in nine lakes across Patagonia (South America)

MB Alfonso, F Scordo, C Seitz, GMM Manstretta… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) on lakes have been reported mainly from Europe, Asia, and North
America. Then, this study aimed to address the quantification and identification of MPs in …

Occurrence of microplastics (MPs) in the gastrointestinal tract of fishes: A global systematic review and meta-analysis and meta-regression

M Zazouli, H Nejati, Y Hashempour, R Dehbandi… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The presence of Microplastics (MPs) in food has become a global health concern in
the last two decades. In this study, an attempt was made to obtain articles about the …

Characterization of microplastic pollution in the Pasur river of the Sundarbans ecosystem (Bangladesh) with emphasis on water, sediments, and fish

N Nawar, MM Rahman, FN Chowdhury… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
An emerging concern of today's world, due to their universal dispersion worldwide, is the
environment's microplastic pollution. The Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove, have …