Tag: microplastics

A comprehensive policy and practice review warns that wastewater treatment transfers microplastics into sewage sludge applied to agricultural land, creating ...

Researchers found that even trace concentrations of microplastics significantly alter soil saturated hydraulic conductivity, with effects dictated primarily by polymer ...

A new systems model maps the complex feedback loops and industry strategies that sustain the high and inequitable consumption of ...

A critical review evaluates remote sensing, robotic recovery, automated sorting, and mechanical recycling technologies tackling marine plastic pollution across Europe.

A new standardized workflow enables the extraction of sterile, representative textile particles for realistic in vitro health effect studies.

Experiments in 45-meter stream mesocosms show that microplastic retention is governed primarily by particle type and transport distance, while aquatic ...

A study in Nature reveals that wild tapirs and anteaters in Brazil accumulate significantly higher concentrations of microplastics in their ...

While wintering Siberian crane numbers grew from 140 to 5,616, their concentration in farmland exposes them to chemical contaminants and ...

A controlled study found that low-density polyethylene microplastics increased cotton Verticillium wilt severity while disrupting rhizosphere microbial community structure and ...

Researchers found that marine microplastics host distinct microbial biofilms enriched with potentially pathogenic bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes compared to ...

A 2026 review in Food, Nutrition and Health details how metabolomics enhances fish meat quality assessment, species authentication, and food ...

A study off the Oregon coast detected anthropogenic microparticles in all examined salmon shark stomachs, with synthetic microplastics present in ...

University of Waterloo researchers developed a durable plant-based coating from cellulose acetate reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals to replace conventional plastic ...

A new review argues that micro- and nano-plastics may damage cells not only biochemically but by altering the mechanical properties ...

A new review finds airborne microplastics in remote forests while evidence on their effects on forest fungi remains too sparse ...

Researchers developed and validated a sequential hydrogen peroxide–potassium hydroxide digestion protocol that achieved over 96 percent digestion efficiency across four ...

Simulations across 395 sub-basins indicate ambitious sustainable food production policies could reduce most river pollutants in China by up to ...

A zebrafish study reveals that bioplastic microplastic shape dictates gut injury, metabolic disruption, and behavioral hyperactivity during co-exposure with the ...

Researchers have built PlasticFADE, an empirical model that predicts polymer-specific plastic fragmentation and degradation rates across environmental compartments, estimating lifespans ...

A critical review argues that human microplastic toxicokinetic parameters are structurally non-identifiable because no existing dataset co-measures intake and elimination ...