Microplastic pollution, a threat to marine ecosystem and human health: a short review

By Shivika Sharma, Subhankar Chatterjee. Environmental science and pollution research international, 2017

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Microplastic sources, formation, toxicity and remediation: a review (2023, background): “For example, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in food and water have become a general concern (Sharma and Chatterjee 2017).”
Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Synthetic Plastics (2020, background): “Microplastics comprising PU foams, PE particles, and PP particles, form the major pollutants with a half-life estimated to be ∼50 years in sea water (Plastics Europe, 2017; Sharma and Chatterjee, 2017; Kim et al., 2015) and polluting coastal and marine habitats (Sharma and Chatterjee, 2017).”
Macro- and micro- plastics in soil-plant system: Effects of plastic mulch film residues on wheat (Triticum aestivum) growth. (2018, background): “It is widely accepted that microplastics in aquatic ecosystems are serious threats that can have potentially negative effects onmarine ecosystems, aquatic organisms and even human health (Sharma and Chatterjee, 2017; Syberg et al., 2015; Wright et al., 2013).”
Synthetic Polymer Contamination in Bottled Water (2018, background): “Plastics become microplastics become nanoplastics, but they are all plastics, just of increasingly smaller size, allowing them to be more easily ingested and perhaps even cross the gastrointestinal tract to be transported throughout a living organism (Brennecke et al., 2015; Sharma and Chatterjee, 2”