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] Microplastics as vectors of chemical contaminants and biological agents in freshwater ecosystems: Current knowledge status and future perspectives

E Tumwesigye, CF Nnadozie, FC Akamagwuna… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are becoming ubiquitous, and their environmental fate is becoming an
issue of concern. Our review aims to synthesize current knowledge status and provide future …

Hazardous microplastic characteristics and its role as a vector of heavy metal in groundwater and surface water of coastal south India

S Selvam, K Jesuraja, S Venkatramanan… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Study of hazardous microplastics in the natural water resources is minimal compared to the
sea salt, seafood and even packaged water. We presented results of the first baseline …

Positively charged microplastics induce strong lettuce stress responses from physiological, transcriptomic, and metabolomic perspectives

Y Wang, L **ang, F Wang, Z Wang, Y Bian… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microplastics (MPs) can enter plants through the foliar pathway and are potential hazards to
ecosystems and human health. However, studies related to the molecular mechanisms …

Distribution, biological effects and biofilms of microplastics in freshwater systems-a review

Y Wang, B Zhou, H Chen, R Yuan, F Wang - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapidly rising output and mass use of plastics have made plastics pollution a major
environmental problem. Since plastics are persistent in the environment, understanding the …

Origin, ecotoxicity, and analytical methods for microplastic detection in aquatic systems

V Kumar, M Umesh, P Chakraborty, P Sharma… - TrAC Trends in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the decades, interaction of microplastics with other pollutants in a dynamic
environmental set up was observed to increase their toxic effects. This scenario is worse in …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric microplastic and nanoplastic: The toxicological paradigm on the cellular system

A Choudhury, FZ Simnani, D Singh, P Patel… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing demand for plastic in our daily lives has led to global plastic pollution. The
improper disposal of plastic has resulted in a massive amount of atmospheric microplastics …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal distribution of microplastics in water and sediment samples of the Plankenburg river, Western Cape, South Africa

K Apetogbor, O Pereao, C Sparks, B Opeolu - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MPs) pollution has become a subject of environmental concern due to its wide
ubiquity in the environment. Microplastics are possible sources of other hazardous …

Evidence of microplastics in wetlands: Extraction and quantification in Freshwater and coastal ecosystems

R Kumar, P Sharma, S Bandyopadhyay - Journal of Water Process …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastics are the emerging non-degradable pollutants in natural ecosystems. It impacts
humans and wildlife, mainly aquatic species, by getting incorporated into the food chain due …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastic burden in Africa: a review of occurrence, impacts, and sustainability potential of bioplastics

ES Okeke, OA Olagbaju, CO Okoye, CI Addey… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although the use of plastics varies across different regions, Africa is ranked second after
Asia as an indiscernible consumer of plastics that break down into microplastic. Moreover …