The reliance on plastic for a vast number of consumer products, many of them single-use,
results in their continuous entry into aquatic environments. Plastic waste can fragment into …

Microplastics are contaminants of emerging concern; they are ingested by marine biota.
About a quarter of global marine fish landings is used to produce fishmeal for animal and …

Commercially-important species of fish and a crustacean from four sites in the Musa estuary
and a site in the Persian Gulf have been analysed for the presence and location of …

Data on ingestion of microplastics by marine biota are quintessential for monitoring and risk
assessment of microplastics in the environment. Current studies, however, portray a wide …

Over the past century, there has been an exponential increase in plastic demand and
production [1]. Concurrently, improper disposal, accidental loss and fragmentation of plastic …

Plastic pollution is a growing global concern. In the present study, we investigated plastic
pollution in 21 species of sea fish and 6 species of freshwater fish from China. All of the …

Microplastics (MPs) are contaminants of emerging concern that attracted the attention of
researchers over the last decade. They can occur in saliva and stool, and on scalp hair …

ABSTRACT The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the United States
Microbead Free Waters Act are credited for being ambitious in their goals for protecting the …

Microplastics are emerging contaminants of increasing concern. Despite the occurrence of
microplastics in farmland soils, the knowledge on microplastics in rice-fish co-culture …

Microplastics (MPs) are abundant in freshwater and marine environments. They are diverse
shape and size and are ingested by organisms. In this study, goldfish (Carassius auratus) …