Gross negligence: impacts of microplastics and plastic leachates on phytoplankton community and ecosystem dynamics

C Amaneesh, S Anna Balan, PS Silpa… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plastic debris is an established environmental menace affecting aquatic systems globally.
Recently, microplastics (MP) and plastic leachates (PL) have been detected in vital human …

Micro/nanoplastics effects on organisms: a review focusing on 'dose'

E Agathokleous, I Iavicoli, D Barceló… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastics have become predominant contaminants, attracting much political and
scientific attention. Despite the massively-increasing research on microplastics effects on …

Ecological risks in a 'plastic'world: a threat to biological diversity?

E Agathokleous, I Iavicoli, D Barceló… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastics pollution is predicted to increase in the coming decades, raising concerns
about its effects on living organisms. Although the effects of microplastics on individual …

Occurrence, effect, and fate of residual microplastics in anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge: A state-of-the-art review

ZW He, WJ Yang, YX Ren, HY **, CC Tang… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
The plastic products have large consumption over last decades, resulting in a serious
microplastics (MPs) pollution. Specially, the main removal way of MPs from wastewater is to …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting the analytical determination of PAHs in environmental samples: An update on recent advances

V Soursou, J Campo, Y Picó - Trends in Environmental Analytical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their derivatives are legislated contaminants
ubiquitous in the environment with well-established determination analytical schemes …

An enlarging ecological risk: review on co-occurrence and migration of microplastics and microplastic-carrying organic pollutants in natural and constructed wetlands

X Su, J Yuan, Z Lu, J Xu, Y He - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Wetlands are a key hub for the accumulation of microplastics (MPs) and have great load
capacity to organic pollutants (OPs), thus, have been a hot research topic. It has shown that …

[HTML][HTML] Perfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS) associated with microplastics in a lake environment

JW Scott, KG Gunderson, LA Green, RR Rediske… - Toxics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The presence of both microplastics and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is
ubiquitous in the environment. The ecological impacts associated with their presence are …

The occurrence, speciation, and ecological effect of plastic pollution in the bay ecosystems

Y Tong, L Lin, Y Tao, Y Huang, X Zhu - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Bay is a unique part of the ecosystem, acting as the intersection for marine and terrestrial
systems and hosting diverse biological organisms. The ubiquitous application of plastics has …

Polyethylene mulching film degrading bacteria within the plastisphere: Co-culture of plastic degrading strains screened by bacterial community succession

P Wang, J Liu, S Han, Y Wang, Y Duan, T Liu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
As an ecological niche close to the polymer, microorganisms in the plastisphere possess the
advantage of degrading plastics. This study aims to investigate the bacterial community …

Microplastics in the environment: Sampling, pretreatment, analysis and occurrence based on current and newly-exploited chromatographic approaches

NM Ainali, D Kalaronis, A Kontogiannis… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The omnipresent character of microplastics (MPs) in environmental matrices, organisms and
products has recently posed the need of their qualitative as well as quantitative analysis …