Recent approaches and advanced wastewater treatment technologies for mitigating emerging microplastics contamination–A critical review

RY Krishnan, S Manikandan, R Subbaiya… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics have been identified as an emerging pollutant due to their irrefutable
prevalence in air, soil, and particularly, the aquatic ecosystem. Wastewater treatment plants …

[HTML][HTML] A review of microplastic pollution in aquaculture: Sources, effects, removal strategies and prospects

H Wu, J Hou, X Wang - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
As microplastic pollution has become an emerging environmental issue of global concern,
microplastics in aquaculture have become a research hotspot. For environmental safety …

Microplastics: An overview on separation, identification and characterization of microplastics

A Tirkey, LSB Upadhyay - Marine pollution bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
At present plastic residues has become grave threat to the environment. Microplastics are
plastic residues with a size< 5 mm, due to their small size it is very difficult to remove them …

[HTML][HTML] Sentinel species selection for monitoring microplastic pollution: A review on one health approach

CR Multisanti, C Merola, M Perugini, V Aliko… - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, global environmental pollution is one of the most topical issues we have to deal
with on a daily basis. Due to the development of the current society including industrial and …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastics in the food chain

K Cverenkárová, M Valachovičová, T Mackuľak… - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
Currently, microplastics represent a widespread contamination found in almost every part of
the environment. The plastic industry has generated waste since the 1950s, which …

Microplastic contamination in wastewater: Sources, distribution, detection and remediation through physical and chemical-biological methods

A Talukdar, P Kundu, S Bhattacharya… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastics are tiny plastic particles smaller than 5 mm. that have been widely detected in
the environment, including in wastewater. They originate from various sources including …

Assessment of microplastics in freshwater systems: A review

C Li, R Busquets, LC Campos - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
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 in freshwater sediment: A review on methods, occurrence, and sources

L Yang, Y Zhang, S Kang, Z Wang, C Wu - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a rising concern regarding the accumulation of microplastics in the aquatic
ecosystems. However, compared to the marine environment, the occurrence, transport, and …

Behavior of microplastics and plastic film residues in the soil environment: A critical review

R Qi, DL Jones, Z Li, Q Liu, C Yan - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
It is now widely acknowledged that microplastic pollution represents one of the greatest
anthropogenically mediated threats to Earth-system functioning. In freshwater and marine …

A review on the characteristics of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants: A source for toxic chemicals

AH Hamidian, EJ Ozumchelouei, F Feizi, C Wu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are known to be one of the main and most important
sources of microplastics discharge into the environment. Although the occurrence and …