Microplastics in aquatic ecosystems: Detection, source tracing, and sustainable management strategies

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 291, P. 117883 - 117883

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Microplastics (MPs) are emerging contaminants characterized by persistence, cross-media transport, and complex pollutant interactions, posing serious ecotoxicological risks to ecosystems human health. Effective MPs management requires multi-faced, long-term, strategies involving targeted sampling, quantitative detection, comprehensive risk assessments, all of which entail significant resource investment. Despite advancements in remediation technologies, a holistic governance framework integrating these innovations remains underdeveloped. This review synthesizes current knowledge on MPs, elaborating their diverse morphologies, degradation pathways, role as vectors for toxic substances. State-of-the-art extraction techniques evaluated this article, including micropore adsorption using nanocomposites, alongside the incorporation advanced analytical tools such spectroscopic methods, electron microscopy, bioinformatics augment environmental forensics. also underscores necessity formulating robust global policies regulate pollution discusses potential biodegradation thermal sustainable solutions removal. By promoting an interdisciplinary approach, advocates coordinated response, science, policy frameworks, waste mitigate escalating impact well-being.

Language: Английский

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Strategies to Improve the Sustainability of Silicone Polymers

Macromolecules, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 11, 2025

Silicones underpin an enormous range of simple and advanced technologies. Often, only small quantities silicone are used to enable a technology such that, on "per use" basis, one might suppose the environmental impact is low. However, preparation processes have very high carbon footprint, billions kg produced each year. To provide context consideration new strategies improve sustainability, we first outline traditional chemistry then describe degree which silicones green, sustainable circular. One strategy involves dilution oil or elastomer by tethering organic entities, particularly natural products, that may properties including facilitated degradation in nature at end-of-life. A greater focus given permit extensive reuse repurposing oils elastomers (e.g., with thermoplastic elastomers), before undergoes recycling. Each reuse, recycling step reduces net footprint. These mostly involve straightforward, high-yielding chemical work efficiently milieu. will eventually end up environment, where linear known rapidly degrade, when compared polymers. Alternative triggered biological and, more importantly elastomers, described, enzymatic composting.

Language: Английский

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Acute Effects of Size Dependent Low-Density Polyethylene Microplastics on Zebrafish

Water Air & Soil Pollution, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 236(6)

Published: April 12, 2025

Language: Английский

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Recent advances in sequestration of dyes using metal–organic frameworks

Chemical Papers, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 16, 2025

Language: Английский

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Simulated Dump Yard Microbes Drive Significant Biodegradation of Polypropylene and Polyvinyl Chloride Microplastics

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 494, P. 138545 - 138545

Published: May 9, 2025

Language: Английский

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Effects of microplastics on hatching success, ingestion, and gut retention in early developmental stages of golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus)

Marine Pollution Bulletin, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 218, P. 118208 - 118208

Published: May 23, 2025

Language: Английский

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