Microplastics in the environment: A critical review of current understanding and identification of future research needs.
By Zeynep Akdogan, Basak Guven. Environmental Pollution, 2019
615 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Microplastics (plastic particles <5 mm) are a contaminant of increasing ecotoxicological concern in aquatic environments, as well as for human health. Although microplastic pollution is widespread across the land, water, and air, these environments are commonly considered independently; however, in reality are closely linked. This study aims to review the scientific literature related microplastic research in different environmental compartments and to identify the research gaps for the assessment of future research priorities. Over 200 papers involving microplastic pollution, published between 2006 and 2018, are identified in the Web of Science database. The original research articles in 'Environmental Sciences', 'Marine/Freshwater Biology', 'Toxicology', 'Multidisciplinary Sciences', 'Environmental Studies', 'Oceanography', 'Limnology' and 'Ecology' categories of Web of Science are selected to investigate microplastic research in seas, estuaries, rivers, lakes, soil and atmosphere. The papers identified for seas, estuaries, rivers and lakes are further classified according to (i) occurrence and characterization (ii) uptake by and effects in organisms, and (iii) fate and transport issues. The results reveal that whilst marine microplastics have received substantial scientific research, the extent of microplastic pollution in continental environments, such as rivers, lakes, soil and air, and environmental interactions, remains poorly understood.
Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution
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Citations in the corpus
- Toxicity of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Mammalian Systems (2020, background): “The smaller plastic pieces, particularly their miniaturized forms that are less than 5 mm in size, are generally termed microplastics (MPs) [5].”
- Microplastics in freshwater fishes: Occurrence, impacts and future perspectives (2021, background): “…introduced later by Thompson et al. (2004), with many studies subsequently identifying MPs in freshwater and terrestrial systems, where both water (Akdogan & Guven, 2019; Bank & Hansson, 2019; Wu et al., 2019) and wind (Chen et al., 2020; Huang, Qing, et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2019) are major…”
- Microplastics in Freshwater: What Is the News from the World? (2020, background): “However, inland waters are poorly investigated compared to marine waters to date [31].”