[HTML][HTML] Current trends of unsustainable plastic production and micro (nano) plastic pollution

TR Walker, L Fequet - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Unsustainable plastic production, use and mismanagement has resulted in increased global
plastic pollution and subsequent degradation into micro (nano) plastics in the environment …

The potential toxicity of microplastics on human health

B Zhao, P Rehati, Z Yang, Z Cai, C Guo, Y Li - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastics are plastic particles, films, and fibers with a diameter of< 5 mm. Given their
long-standing existence in the environment and terrible increase in annual emissions …

Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment

D Allen, S Allen, S Abbasi, A Baker… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The discovery of atmospheric micro (nano) plastic transport and ocean–atmosphere
exchange points to a highly complex marine plastic cycle, with negative implications for …

A review on microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment: Their occurrence, exposure routes, toxic studies, and potential effects on human health

S Sangkham, O Faikhaw, N Munkong, P Sakunkoo… - Marine pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) are emerging environmental pollutants,
having a major ecotoxicological concern to humans and many other biotas, especially …

Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: Un-ignorable impacts on soil characterises, nutrient storage and its cycling

A Kumar, S Mishra, R Pandey, ZG Yu, M Kumar… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Microplastics (size< 5 mm) debris are environmentally persistent pollutants that
severely affect terrestrial ecosystems by promoting the loss of soil fertility, and microbiome …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of microplastics on fish and in human health

MS Bhuyan - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microplastics (MPs) are regarded as a global issue due to their toxicity effects on fish and
humans. Fish is a vital origin of human protein, which is necessary for body growth …

[HTML][HTML] The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on plastics and human health

PJ Landrigan, H Raps, M Cropper, C Bald… - Annals of Global …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

Microplastics detected in cirrhotic liver tissue

T Horvatits, M Tamminga, B Liu, M Sebode… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The contamination of ecosystem compartments by microplastics (MPs) is an
ubiquitous problem. MPs have been observed in mice tissues, and recently in human blood …

Impact of microplastics and nanoplastics on human health

MSL Yee, LW Hii, CK Looi, WM Lim, SF Wong, YY Kok… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plastics have enormous impacts to every aspect of daily life including technology, medicine
and treatments, and domestic appliances. Most of the used plastics are thrown away by …

Potential human health risks due to environmental exposure to nano-and microplastics and knowledge gaps: A sco** review

A Rahman, A Sarkar, OP Yadav, G Achari… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastics are an emerging global environmental contaminant that are affecting multiple
spheres. Despite their ubiquity in all spheres of life and ecology, little is known about the …