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Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions
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The sources and global distribution of microplastics in the environment, the fate and impact on marine biota, especially the food chain are described and the control measures discussed are those mapped out by both national and international environmental organizations for combating the impact from microplastic pollution.About:
This article is published in Environment International.The article was published on 2017-05-01. It has received 1487 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microplastics.read more
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Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review on occurrence, environmental effects, and methods for microplastics detection.
TL;DR: There is still no universal accepted quantification and qualification tools of microplastics in fresh waters, and more work is anticipated to obtain accurate information on microplastic in freshwater, which can then be used for the better assessment of the environmental risk.
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Studies of the effects of microplastics on aquatic organisms: What do we know and where should we focus our efforts in the future?
TL;DR: A critical perspective on published studies of MP ingestion by aquatic biota is provided and there are significant mismatches between the types of MP most commonly found in the environment or reported in field studies and those used in laboratory experiments.
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Evidence of microplastic accumulation in agricultural soils from sewage sludge disposal
Fabio Corradini,Pablo Meza,Raúl Eguiluz,Francisco Casado,Esperanza Huerta-Lwanga,Violette Geissen +5 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that microplastic counts increase over time where successive sludge applications are performed, and stress the relevance of sludge as a driver of soil microplastics contamination.
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Macro- and micro- plastics in soil-plant system : Effects of plastic mulch film residues on wheat (Triticum aestivum) growth
Yueling Qi,Xiaomei Yang,Amalia Mejia Pelaez,Esperanza Huerta Lwanga,Nicolas Beriot,Henny Gertsen,Paolina Garbeva,Violette Geissen +7 more
TL;DR: The results showed that macro- and micro- plastic residues affected both above-ground and below-ground parts of the wheat plant during both vegetative and reproductive growth and the type of plastic mulch films used had a strong effect on wheat growth.
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Atmospheric microplastics: A review on current status and perspectives
TL;DR: In this paper, the current status of knowledge on atmospheric microplastics, the methods for sample collection, analysis and detection, and the recommendations for atmospheric micro-plastic sampling and measurement are reviewed.
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TL;DR: Analytical methods were developed to extract, concentrate and identify POPs that may have accumulated on plastic fragments and plastic pellets, confirming that plastic debris is a trap for POPs.
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Isolation of microplastics in biota-rich seawater samples and marine organisms
TL;DR: The efficacy of using acid, alkaline and enzymatic digestion techniques in mineralizing biological material from marine surface trawls to reveal any microplastics present is investigated and it is illustrated that enzyme digestion can aid the detection of microplastic debris within seawater samples and marine biota.
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Size-Dependent Effects of Micro Polystyrene Particles in the Marine Copepod Tigriopus japonicus
TL;DR: The results suggest that microplastics such as micro- or nanosized PS beads may have negative impacts on marine copepods.
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New techniques for the detection of microplastics in sediments and field collected organisms
TL;DR: New techniques for extracting microplastics from sediment and invertebrate tissue based on chemical digestion and volume reduction by elutriation are proposed, which will result in a more complete assessment of marine microplastic concentrations.
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Ingestion of Microplastics by Zooplankton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean.
TL;DR: This first evidence of microplastic ingestion by marine zooplankton indicate that species at lower trophic levels of the marine food web are mistaking plastic for food, which raises fundamental questions about potential risks to higher Trophic level species.