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 …

Interaction of microplastics with antibiotics in aquatic environment: distribution, adsorption, and toxicity

Y Wang, Y Yang, X Liu, J Zhao, R Liu… - … Science & Technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
As two major types of pollutants of emerging concerns, microplastics (MPs) and antibiotics
(ATs) coexist in aquatic environments, and their interactions are a source of increasing …

Microplastic pollution: Understanding microbial degradation and strategies for pollutant reduction

R Jain, A Gaur, R Suravajhala, U Chauhan… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics are ubiquitous environmental pollutants with the potential for adverse impacts
on ecosystems and human health. These particles originate from the fragmentation of larger …

A review of biodegradable plastics to biodegradable microplastics: another ecological threat to soil environments?

M Qin, C Chen, B Song, M Shen, W Cao, H Yang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biodegradable plastics attract public attention as promising substitute for non-degradable
plastics that trigger serious plastic pollution, and they are claimed to be environmentally …

[HTML][HTML] Biofilm formation and its implications on the properties and fate of microplastics in aquatic environments: a review

P Sooriyakumar, N Bolan, M Kumar, L Singh… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Particulate plastic fragments (micro and nano-plastics) in aquatic environments provide
abundant solid substrates, which serve as an important habitat for a variety of …

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 …

Microplastics in the environment: Interactions with microbes and chemical contaminants

FK Mammo, ID Amoah, KM Gani, L Pillay… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are contaminants of emerging concern that have gained considerable
attention during the last few decades due to their adverse impact on living organisms and …

Gross negligence: impacts of microplastics and plastic leachates on phytoplankton community and ecosystem dynamics

C Amaneesh, S Anna Balan, PS Silpa… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plastic debris is an established environmental menace affecting aquatic systems globally.
Recently, microplastics (MP) and plastic leachates (PL) have been detected in vital human …

Effects of microplastics on greenhouse gas emissions and the microbial community in fertilized soil

X Ren, J Tang, X Liu, Q Liu - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are characterized by small particle sizes (< 5 mm) and are widely
distributed in the soil environment. To date, little research has been conducted on …

Microplastic pollution in the rivers of the Tibet Plateau

C Jiang, L Yin, Z Li, X Wen, X Luo, S Hu, H Yang… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tibet Plateau, the so-called Third Pole of the world, is home to the headstreams
of many great rivers. The levels of microplastic pollution in those rivers, however, are …