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Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:11
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Distribution and characteristics of microplastics in beach sand near the outlet of a major reservoir in north Mississippi, USA
Plastic debris both affects and is affected by the beaches it accumulates on. Most studies of microplastics (MPs) in beach sand are focused on coastal beaches or beaches of large lakes near population centers....
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Polyethylene terephthalate nanoparticles effect on RAW 264.7 macrophage cells
Plastic pollution is a major environmental concern due to its pervasiveness which continues to increase year on year, as a result of a continuing acceleration in global plastic production and use. Polyethylene...
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Microplastics in the Mediterranean marine environment: a combined bibliometric and systematic analysis to identify current trends and challenges
In recent decades, the potential toxicological and environmental effects of microplastics (MPs) in the Mediterranean Sea region have received growing attention. The number of studies in this area has increased...
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Microplastics: a multidimensional contaminant requires a multidimensional framework for assessing risk
The global ubiquity and demonstrated toxicity of microplastics has led governments around the world to express the need for a risk assessment on microplastics. To conduct a risk assessment, scientists often dr...
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Advanced epithelial lung and gut barrier models demonstrate passage of microplastic particles
Micro- and nanoplastics (MNP) can be found virtually everywhere around us in the biosphere and food chain, therefore humans are continuously exposed to MNP, mainly via inhalation and ingestion. Here, we have a...
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Clarifying the importance of microplastic particles as vectors for long-range transport of chemical contaminants: a response to letter to the editor
This correspondence article provides a response to comments that have been raised regarding the long-range environmental transport of chemical additives associated with microplastic particles and plastic debri...
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Correspondence regarding the Perspective “Addressing the importance of microplastic particles as vectors for long-range transport of chemical contaminants: perspective in relation to prioritizing research and regulatory actions”
Important clarifications regarding the long-range environmental transport of chemical additives contained in floating plastic debris are presented.
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Release and intestinal translocation of chemicals associated with microplastics in an in vitro human gastrointestinal digestion model
The global production of plastic currently exceeds 300 million tonnes per year. The extensive use of plastics and bad waste management has resulted in the presence of microplastics at different levels in the f...
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Screening and prioritization of nano- and microplastic particle toxicity studies for evaluating human health risks – development and application of a toxicity study assessment tool
Concern regarding the human health implications that exposure to nano- and microplastic particles (NMPs) potentially represents is increasing. While there have been several years of research reporting on the e...
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Environmental hazard of polypropylene microplastics from disposable medical masks: acute toxicity towards Daphnia magna and current knowledge on other polypropylene microplastics
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the use of disposable plastics, including medical masks, which have become a necessity in our daily lives. As these are often improperly disposed of, they represent an impor...
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Incorporating terrain specific beaching within a lagrangian transport plastics model for Lake Erie
Mass estimates of plastic pollution in the Great Lakes based on surface samples differ by orders of magnitude from what is predicted by production and input rates. It has been theorized that a potential locati...
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Ejection of marine microplastics by raindrops: a computational and experimental study
Raindrops impacting water surfaces such as lakes or oceans produce myriads of tiny droplets which are ejected into the atmosphere at very high speeds. Here we combine computer simulations and experimental meas...
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Microplastics in fecal samples of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and from surface water in the Philippines
Marine plastic abundance has increased over the past 60 years and microplastics (< 5 mm) constitute a primary component of such litter. Filter-feeding megafauna, such as the whale shark, might be particularly ...
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A multilevel dataset of microplastic abundance in the world’s upper ocean and the Laurentian Great Lakes
A total of 8218 pelagic microplastic samples from the world’s oceans were synthesized to create a dataset composed of raw, calibrated, processed, and gridded data which are made available to the public. The ra...
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Exposure to microplastic fibers does not change fish early life stage development of three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
Microplastic fibers are frequent contaminants of aquatic ecosystems. Early life stages of aquatic organisms are predicted to be especially vulnerable to microplastic pollution. We hypothesized that microplasti...
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Addressing the importance of microplastic particles as vectors for long-range transport of chemical contaminants: perspective in relation to prioritizing research and regulatory actions
Over the last several years there has been increasing concern regarding the environmental fate and potential global transport of plastic debris, particularly in the form of microplastic particles (MPs). The gl...
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Hyperspectral imaging as an emerging tool to analyze microplastics: A systematic review and recommendations for future development
A central challenge in microplastics (MP, diameter < 5 mm) research is the analysis of small plastic particles in an efficient manner. This review focuses on the recent application of infrared hyperspectral im...
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Measuring impacts of microplastic treatments via image recognition on immobilised particles below 100 μm
The treatment of samples for microplastic (MP) analysis requires purification steps that sufficiently reduce the non-MP content while preserving the targeted particles integrity. Besides their macromolecular s...
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Tracing the horizontal transport of microplastics on rough surfaces
Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in different ecosystems have recently become subjects of numerous studies. However, to date the research has focused mainly on marine and freshwater ecosystems and ...
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Environmental risks of car tire microplastic particles and other road runoff pollutants
Tire wear represents a large source of microplastic entering the aquatic environment, however little is known about its environmental risks. Here, we provide the first assessment of the environmental risks of ...
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Paradigms to assess the human health risks of nano- and microplastics
Human exposure to nano- and microplastics (NMPs) has raised major societal concerns, yet no framework to assess the risks of NMPs for human health exists. A substantial proportion of plastic produced worldwide...
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Microplastic extraction protocols can impact the polymer structure
Although microplastics are ubiquitous in today’s natural environments, our understanding of the materials, quantities, and particle sizes involved remains limited. The recovery of microplastics from different ...
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Microplastics have shape- and polymer-dependent effects on soil aggregation and organic matter loss – an experimental and meta-analytical approach
Microplastics are a diverse and ubiquitous contaminant, a global change driver with potential to alter ecosystem properties and processes. Microplastic-induced effects in soils are manifold as microplastics di...
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Development of screening criteria for microplastic particles in air and atmospheric deposition: critical review and applicability towards assessing human exposure
Over the last several years there has been an increase in studies reporting the presence of microplastic particles (MPs) in both indoor and outdoor air. Data reported reflect a variety of different types of ai...
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Detection, counting and characterization of nanoplastics in marine bioindicators: a proof of principle study
Plastic particulates in the environment pose an increasing concern for regulatory bodies due to their potential risk to higher organisms (including humans) as they enter the food chain. Nanoplastics (defined h...
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Macroplastic research in an era of microplastic
Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:4 -
Microplastic fibers affect dynamics and intensity of CO2 and N2O fluxes from soil differently
Microplastics may affect soil ecosystem functioning in critical ways, with previously documented effects including changes in soil structure and water dynamics; this suggests that microbial populations and the...
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Are litter, plastic and microplastic quantities increasing in the ocean?
Whilst both plastic production and inputs at sea have increased since the 1950s, several modelling studies predict a further increase in the coming years in these respective quantities. We compiled scientific ...
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Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:1
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