Plastics play an indispensable role in our daily lives, owing to their ease in use, low cost,
strength, versatility and durability but their excessive usage in packaging industries …

The soil environment serves as an assembling area for microplastics, and is an important
secondary source of microplastics in other environmental media. Recently, soil microplastics …

The combined pollution of heavy metals and microplastics is common in natural soil
environments. Here, we collected 790 data sets from 39 studies to investigate the effects of …

Microplastics have been reported in wastewater treatment works across the world. The
majority of microplastics are removed during the wastewater treatment process, with removal …

Stormwater represent a critical pathway for transporting microplastics (MPs) to surface
waters. Due to complex dynamics of MPs in stormwater, its dispersion, weathering, risk, and …

The analysis of microplastics (MPs) in terrestrial environments and the evaluation of their
environmental risk has gained great attention, owing to the increasing evidence for their …

The aim of this study was to review microplastics (MPs) occurrence in sewage sludge from
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and assess implications of sludge application to …

Land-applied municipal biosolids, produced from municipal wastewater treatment sludge,
contributes to microplastics contamination in agroecosystems. The impacts of biosolids on …

Sludge from Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have been determined as a sink of
microplastics (MP) removed from wastewater. The aim of this research work has been to …

Around one million metric ton of plastics is produced worldwide daily. Plastic contamination
is aggravated when the particles reach sizes between 5 mm and 1 μm, giving rise to …