Global occurrence characteristics, drivers, and environmental risk assessment of microplastics in lakes: A meta-analysis

L Chen, S Zhou, Q Zhang, B Su, Q Yin, M Zou - Environmental Pollution, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution in lakes has received much attention as an increasing amount of
plastic waste enters aquatic ecosystems. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive …

An overview of microplastic pollution in the environment over the megacity of Shanghai during 2013–2022

P Yuan, Y Wang, X Chen, P Gao - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are emerging pollutants that have been globally found in the
environment, and have become a focus of intensive management for the Shanghai …

Toward carbon neutrality: Selective conversion of waste plastics into value-added chemicals

J Chen, L Zhang, L Wang, M Kuang, S Wang, J Yang - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
Due to the ever-expanding uses of plastics and shortage of rational waste management,
plastic wastes have accumulated in the global environment and reached 6,300 million …

Arsenic (As) oxidation by core endosphere microbiome mediates As speciation in Pteris vittata roots

X Sun, T Kong, D Huang, Z Chen, M Kolton… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pteris vittata is an arsenic (As)-hyperaccumulator that may be employed in phytoremediation
of As-contaminated soils. P. vittata-associated microbiome are adapted to elevated As and …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of rare microbial colonizers of plastic materials incubated in a coral reef environment

SL Singleton, EW Davis, HK Arnold… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Plastic waste accumulation in marine environments has complex, unintended impacts on
ecology that cross levels of community organization. To measure succession in polyolefin …

Occurrence, degradation pathways, and potential synergistic degradation mechanism of microplastics in surface water: a review

L Niu, Y Wang, Y Li, L Lin, Y Chen, J Shen - Current Pollution Reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review As the initial acceptor of terrigenous microplastics and the
primary transporter of marine microplastics, the migration and degradation characteristics of …

Surface-programmed microbiome assembly in phycosphere to microplastics contamination

X Fan, L Kong, J Wang, Y Tan, X Xu, M Li, L Zhu - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Recalcitrance in microplastics accounts for ubiquitous white pollution. Of special interest are
the capabilities of microorganisms to accelerate their degradation sustainably. Compared to …

Distribution characteristics and microbial synergistic degradation potential of polyethylene and polypropylene in freshwater estuarine sediments

Y Chen, L Niu, Y Li, Y Wang, J Shen, W Zhang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
The microbial degradation of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) resins in rivers and
lakes has emerged as a crucial issue in the management of microplastics. This study …

Are Si–C bonds cleaved by microorganisms? A critical review on biodegradation of methylsiloxanes

C Rücker, E Grabitz, K Kümmerer - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Methylsiloxanes, compounds that contain H 3 C–Si–O subunits in their molecular structure,
are emerging ubiquitous pollutants now detected in many environmental compartments …

A polyethylene surrogate for microbial community enrichment and characterization

BB Camur, NC Mancipe… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Plastic pollution is a vast and increasing problem that has permeated the environment,
affecting all aspects of the global food web. Plastics and microplastics have spread to soil …