Micro/nano-plastics occurrence, identification, risk analysis and mitigation: challenges and perspectives

BR Kiran, H Kopperi, S Venkata Mohan - Reviews in environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Micro/nanoplastics (MP/NPs) are emerging global pollutants that garnered
enormous attention due to their potential threat to the ecosystem in virtue of their persistence …

[HTML][HTML] Micro (nano) plastics sources, fate, and effects: What we know after ten years of research

S Allen, D Allen, S Karbalaei, V Maselli… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The last decade has been transformative for micro (nano) plastic (MnP) research with recent
discoveries revealing the extent and magnitude of MnP pollution, even in the world's most …

Quantitative tracing of uptake and transport of submicrometre plastics in crop plants using lanthanide chelates as a dual-functional tracer

Y Luo, L Li, Y Feng, R Li, J Yang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The uptake pathways of nanoplastics by edible plants have recently been qualitatively
investigated. There is an urgent need to accurately quantify nanoplastics accumulation in …

Impacts of soil microplastics on crops: A review

B Iqbal, T Zhao, W Yin, X Zhao, Q **e, KY Khan… - Applied Soil …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are plastic particles with lesser than 5 mm in size, and in recent years
their accumulation in the soil has given rise to a critical global environmental issue that …

[HTML][HTML] Bioplastic (PHBV) addition to soil alters microbial community structure and negatively affects plant-microbial metabolic functioning in maize

RW Brown, DR Chadwick, H Zang, M Graf, X Liu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastic contamination poses a significant threat to agroecosystem functioning,
provoking a move away from the use of conventional oil-based plastics in agriculture, to …

Fate of microplastics under the influence of climate change

F Haque, C Fan - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Plastic pollution and climate change are two major environmental focuses. Having the
forming potential due to ambient plastic pollution, the environmental fate of microplastics …

Microplastics in plant-soil ecosystems: a meta-analysis

Y Zhang, C Cai, Y Gu, Y Shi, X Gao - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastic pollution is a recognized hazard in aquatic systems, but in the past decade has
emerged as a pollutant of interest in terrestrial ecosystems. This paper is the first formal meta …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoplastics are significantly different from microplastics in urban waters

Z Chen, X Shi, J Zhang, L Wu, W Wei, BJ Ni - Water Research X, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) are ubiquitous and intractable in urban
waters. Compared with MPs, the smaller NPs have shown distinct physicochemical features …

Surface functional groups and biofilm formation on microplastics: environmental implications

X Liu, L Fang, X Yan, JL Gardea-Torresdey… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) contamination is becoming a significant environmental issue, as the
widespread omnipresence of MPs can cause many adverse consequences for both …

[HTML][HTML] The burden of microplastics pollution and contending policies and regulations

S Usman, AF Abdull Razis, K Shaari… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The relationship between humans and plastics has become intricate due to their versatile
nature and low production cost. Plastics generation has surpassed that of other …