Impacts of plastic pollution on ecosystem services, sustainable development goals, and need to focus on circular economy and policy interventions

R Kumar, A Verma, A Shome, R Sinha, S Sinha… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plastic pollution is ubiquitous in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Plastic waste exposed to
the environment creates problems and is of significant concern for all life forms. Plastic …

Critical review on hazardous pollutants in water environment: Occurrence, monitoring, fate, removal technologies and risk assessment

BS Rathi, PS Kumar, DVN Vo - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Water is required for the existence of all living things. Water pollution has grown significantly,
over the decades and now it has developed as a serious worldwide problem. The presence …

Interactions and effects of microplastics with heavy metals in aquatic and terrestrial environments

N Khalid, M Aqeel, A Noman, SM Khan, N Akhter - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Contamination of waters and soils with microplastics (MPs) is an emerging environmental
issue worldwide. MPs constitute a cocktail of various additives and polymers besides …

Current trends in the detection and removal of heavy metal ions using functional materials

M Li, Q Shi, N Song, Y **ao, L Wang, Z Chen… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The shortage of freshwater resources caused by heavy metal pollution is an acute global
issue, which has a great impact on environmental protection and human health. Therefore …

Recent progress in removal of heavy metals from wastewater: A comprehensive review

Y Fei, YH Hu - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The heavy metal pollution constitutes a critical environmental issue. This has stimulated
intensive efforts to develop treatment techniques for their removal from wastewater …

Microplastic spectral classification needs an open source community: open specy to the rescue!

W Cowger, Z Steinmetz, A Gray, K Munno… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microplastic pollution research has suffered from inadequate data and tools for spectral
(Raman and infrared) classification. Spectral matching tools often are not accurate for …

Microplastics as a vehicle of heavy metals in aquatic environments: A review of adsorption factors, mechanisms, and biological effects

S Liu, JH Huang, W Zhang, LX Shi, KX Yi, HB Yu… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) have recently attracted much attention due to their widespread
distribution in the aquatic environment. Microplastics can act as a vector of heavy metals in …

Dibutyl phthalate release from polyvinyl chloride microplastics: Influence of plastic properties and environmental factors

Y Yan, F Zhu, C Zhu, Z Chen, S Liu, C Wang, C Gu - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, great efforts have been made to understand the capacity of microplastics to
adsorb environmental pollutants; however, relatively little is known about the ability of …

Interactions between microplastics and heavy metals in aquatic environments: a review

S Liu, J Shi, J Wang, Y Dai, H Li, J Li, X Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Microplastics (MPs), tiny particles broken down from larger pieces of plastics, have
accumulated everywhere on the earth. As an inert carbon stream in aquatic environment …

[HTML][HTML] Removing microplastics from aquatic environments: A critical review

Y Pan, SH Gao, C Ge, Q Gao, S Huang, Y Kang… - Environmental science …, 2023 - Elsevier
As one of the typical emerging contaminants, microplastics exist widely in the environment
because of their small size and recalcitrance, which has caused various ecological …