Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions.

By H. Auta, C. U. Emenike, S. Fauziah. Environment International, 2017

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Ocean Engineering, Pollution

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In Biomaterials

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3. Joydeep Dutta
4. Violette Geissen
5. Fei Ye
6. Špela Korez

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• Macro- and micro- plastics in soil-plant system: Effects of plastic mulch film residues on wheat (Triticum aestivum) growth. (2018, background): “…al., 2016b; Rillig, 2012; Zubris and Richards, 2005), most of the research done so far has been focused on microplastics in the aquatic ecosystem (Auta et al., 2017; Cole et al., 2011; Duis and Coors, 2016; Eerkes-Medrano et al., 2015; Koelmans et al., 2014; Koelmans et al., 2017; Nizzetto et…”
• Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater Environments: A Review, Focusing on Interactions with Sediments and Benthic Organisms (2020, background): “The United Nations Expert Panel of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP-MAP), the Oslo/Paris Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR), and the Baltic Marine Enviro”
• Microbial Colonization and Degradation of Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystem: A Review (2021, background): “The potential disease-causing pathogen could be dispersed into a previously impervious environment through microplastics (Auta et al. 2017).”
• Toxicity of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Mammalian Systems (2020, background): “Plastics that are already small in size to begin with, such as those purposefully manufactured in the form of microbeads in skincare products (primary MPs), or those derived from degradation of larger plastic pieces (secondary MPs), permeate both the terrestrial [6] and the marine [7,8] environments”
• Enhanced Visible Light Photodegradation of Microplastic Fragments with Plasmonic Platinum/Zinc Oxide Nanorod Photocatalysts (2019, background): “27 million/annum of plastic debris enters the ocean from different sources [3], with the major sources being: Effluents discharged from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), surface runoff from contaminated landscape or disposal lands, and beach littering [4,5].”
• Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Development Goals, and Need to Focus on Circular Economy and Policy Interventions (2021, methodology): “Eco-labeling is a tool that is used to reduce marine plastic pollution [142,274].”