Review of microplastics in lakes: sources, distribution characteristics, and environmental effects

T Pan, H Liao, F Yang, F Sun, Y Guo, H Yang, D Feng… - Carbon Research, 2023 - Springer
Microplastics (MPs) are contaminants that damage lake ecosystems by enriching pollutants.
This study investigated the current state of MPs in lakes using the bibliometric method and …

Photodegradation of biodegradable plastics in aquatic environments: Current understanding and challenges

V Kaing, Z Guo, T Sok, D Kodikara, F Breider… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Direct and indirect photolysis are important abiotic processes in aquatic environments
through which plastics can be transformed physically and chemically. Transport of …

[HTML][HTML] Physical characteristics of microplastic particles and potential for global atmospheric transport: A meta-analysis

S Fox, H Stefánsson, M Peternell, E Zlotskiy… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent interest in microplastic pollution of natural environments has brought forth samples
which confirm the pollutant's omnipresence in a variety of ecosystems. This includes …

The extent of microplastic pollution along the eastern coast of India: Focussing on marine waters, beach sand, and fish

A Mandal, N Singh, A Mondal, M Talib, R Basu… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, for the first time, we evaluated microplastic contamination in water, beach sand,
and fish samples collected from the seven most famous and crowded beaches of the eastern …

Distribution and weathering characteristics of microplastics in paddy soils following long-term mulching: a field study in Southwest China

J Yang, K Song, C Tu, L Li, Y Feng, R Li, H Xu… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Agricultural plastic-film residues have been considered as one of the important sources of
microplastics in the agroecosystem. However, limited researches were conducted on the …

Differential photoaging effects on colored nanoplastics in aquatic environments: Physicochemical properties and aggregation kinetics

J Su, J Ruan, D Luo, J Wang, Z Huang… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanoplastics (NPs) have different colors, which could affect their photoaging processes in
aquatic environments. This study investigated the effects of irradiation on physicochemical …

Status, characteristics, and ecological risks of microplastics in farmland surface soils cultivated with different crops across mainland China

LY Chen, L Yu, YJ Li, BJ Han, JD Zhang, S Tao… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) in agricultural soils could affect the safety of food crops. However, most
relevant studies have paid scant attention to the crop fields and focused more on MPs in …

Single and combined toxicity assessment of primary or UV-aged microplastics and adsorbed organic pollutants on microalga Chlorella pyrenoidosa

W Song, C Fu, Y Fang, Z Wang, J Li, X Zhang… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs), an emerging pollutant, have been increasingly raising concern due to
the potential impacts on aquatic organisms. Moreover, the environmental aged MPs always …

Municipal solid waste sanitary and open landfills: contrasting sources of microplastics and its fate in their respective treatment systems

NT Nayahi, B Ou, Y Liu, D Janjaroen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, research studies in identifying microplastics (MPs) from various environment has
become a notable work, in the view of MPs as emerging pollutants as well as due to many …

Dialdehyde modified and cationic aerogel for efficient microplastics adsorption from environmental waters

F Liu, Y Zhang, L Zhong, Q Feng, Z Dong… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent reports had shown that microplastics could be transferred to organisms through
various channels, severely and adversely affecting organisms' health and their physiological …