Microplastic Pollution in Soil and Water and the Potential Effects on Human Health: A Review DOI Open Access
Mario Alberto Pérez-Méndez,

Guadalupe Selene Fraga-Cruz,

Saúl Domínguez-García

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Processes, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13(2), P. 502 - 502

Published: Feb. 11, 2025

The presence of microplastics in the environment has increased due to anthropogenic activities; it is estimated that 15 million kilograms plastic waste accumulate ocean annually. Pollution permeates every inch from food chain water bottles floating on surface. This monolith pollution made up all kinds marine debris and contains 1.8 trillion pieces plastic, covering an area twice size Texas. objective this review show advances study emerging problems, specifically soil their potential effects health. In addition, have synergy with residual contaminants exist such as textile waste, organic matter, pathogens, etc. causes damage aquatic organisms makes nutrient transfer more complex many these species. There a report estimates liabilities related will cost industry 100,000 dollars lawsuits for damages losses, which 20,000 occur United States. can generate indicators current effect public policies try control growth pollutant environment. It important discuss routes generation microplastics, distribution, cosmetics involved fast fashion glitter evaluate physical, chemical, biological, toxicological environment, proposing path future be followed regarding research topic.

Language: Английский

Comprehensive review of emerging contaminants: Detection technologies, environmental impact, and management strategies DOI Creative Commons
Xingyu Li, Xiaojing Shen, Weiwei Jiang

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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 278, P. 116420 - 116420

Published: May 2, 2024

Emerging contaminants (ECs) are a diverse group of unregulated pollutants increasingly present in the environment. These contaminants, including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, endocrine disruptors, and industrial chemicals, can enter environment through various pathways persist, accumulating food chain posing risks to ecosystems human health. This comprehensive review examines chemical characteristics, sources, varieties ECs. It critically evaluates current understanding their environmental health impacts, highlighting recent advancements challenges detection analysis. The also assesses existing regulations policies, identifying shortcomings proposing potential enhancements. ECs pose significant wildlife by disrupting animal hormones, causing genetic alterations that diminish diversity resilience, altering soil nutrient dynamics physical Furthermore, increasing health, hormonal disruptions, antibiotic resistance, disruption, neurological effects, carcinogenic other long-term impacts. To address these critical issues, offers recommendations for future research, emphasizing areas requiring further investigation comprehend full implications contaminants. suggests increased funding support development advanced technologies, establishment standardized methods, adoption precautionary regulations, enhanced public awareness education, cross-sectoral collaboration, integration scientific research into policy-making. By implementing solutions, we improve our ability detect, monitor, manage ECs, reducing risks.

Language: Английский

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The triple exposure nexus of microplastic particles, plastic-associated chemicals, and environmental pollutants from a human health perspective DOI Creative Commons
Andi Alijagić, Damir Suljević, Muhamed Fočak

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Environment International, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 188, P. 108736 - 108736

Published: May 10, 2024

The presence of microplastics (MPs) is increasing at a dramatic rate globally, posing risks for exposure and subsequent potential adverse effects on human health. Apart from being physical objects, MP particles contain thousands plastic-associated chemicals (i.e., monomers, chemical additives, non-intentionally added substances) captured within the polymer matrix. These are often migrating MPs can be found in various environmental matrices food chains; health effects. In addition to attributes MPs, plastic surfaces effectively bind exogenous chemicals, including pollutants (e.g., heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants). Therefore, act as vectors pollution across air, drinking water, food, further amplifying posed by exposure. Critically, fragmentation plastics environment increases risk interactions with cells, available leach adsorb transfer pollutants. This review proposes so-called triple nexus approach comprehensively map existing knowledge interconnected particles, Based data, there large gap regard cumulative nexus. Each component known induce genotoxicity, inflammation, endocrine disruption, but about long-term inter-individual lacking. Furthermore, not readily excreted organisms after ingestion they have been accumulated blood, cardiac tissue, placenta, etc. Even though number studies MPs-associated impacts rapidly, this underscores that pressing necessity achieve an integrated assessment MPs' order address future gaps.

Language: Английский

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Unveiling the optical and molecular characteristics of aging microplastics derived dissolved organic matter transformed by UV/chlor(am)ine oxidation and its potential for disinfection byproducts formation DOI

Huiming Zheng,

Sinong Huang, Jia-Hui Huang

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Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 480, P. 136440 - 136440

Published: Nov. 8, 2024

Language: Английский

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A critical review of the adsorption-desorption characteristics of antibiotics on microplastics and their combined toxic effects DOI Creative Commons
Kefu Wang, Changyan Guo, Li Jiang

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Environmental Technology & Innovation, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 35, P. 103729 - 103729

Published: June 26, 2024

The interaction between microplastics (MPs) and pollutants is crucial for assessing the environmental risk of MPs. It necessary to pay attention adsorption/desorption behavior antibiotics on MPs due their potential role in antibiotic resistance. When MPs-loaded are ingested by organisms, they enter gastrointestinal tract undergo desorption, leading corresponding toxic effects. Existing literature primarily focuses adsorption behavior, while there a lack systematic generalizations desorption or combined effects organisms. Therefore, this article provides review mechanisms, biological tract. Desorption suggests that characteristics (aging hydrophobicity) components fluid (digestive enzyme species pH) can also have effect desorption. Moreover, summarizes induced MPs-antibiotics, demonstrating either enhance reduce plants, microorganisms, aquatic animals. Since methodological uniformity relevance natural environment main shortcomings existing literature, future research should focus actual water given region studying at gene, protein, metabolic levels. This direction expected provide valuable references insights evaluating antibiotics.

Language: Английский

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Quantitative study of microplastic degradation in urban hydrosystems: comparing in-situ environmentally aged microplastics vs. artificially aged materials generated via accelerated photo-oxidation DOI Creative Commons
Okba Mostefaoui,

Zoé Iannuzzi,

Diego López

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Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 486, P. 137087 - 137087

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Microplastics in water resources: Global pollution circle, possible technological solutions, legislations, and future horizon DOI
Saeed S. Albaseer, Hussein E. Al‐Hazmi, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan

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The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 946, P. 173963 - 173963

Published: June 18, 2024

Language: Английский

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Microplastics in the Human Body: Exposure, Detection, and Risk of Carcinogenesis: A State-of-the-Art Review DOI Open Access

Eliasz Dzierżyński,

Piotr Gawlik, Damian Puźniak

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Cancers, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(21), P. 3703 - 3703

Published: Nov. 1, 2024

Humans cannot avoid plastic exposure due to its ubiquitous presence in the natural environment. The waste generated is poorly biodegradable and exists form of MPs, which can enter human body primarily through digestive tract, respiratory or damaged skin accumulate various tissues by crossing biological membrane barriers. There an increasing amount research on health effects MPs. Most literature reports focus impact plastics respiratory, digestive, reproductive, hormonal, nervous, immune systems, as well metabolic MPs accumulation leading epidemics obesity, diabetes, hypertension, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. xenobiotics, undergo ADMET processes body, i.e., absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, are not fully understood. Of particular concern carcinogenic chemicals added during manufacturing adsorbed from environment, such chlorinated paraffins, phthalates, phenols, bisphenols, be released when absorbed body. continuous increase NMP has accelerated SARS-CoV-2 pandemic there was a need use single-use products daily life. Therefore, urgent diagnose problems related MP detection.

Language: Английский

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Microplastics in food: sources, distribution, health impacts, and regulation DOI
Jinzhao Xu,

Maolin Tang,

Xiaoxi Xu

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Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 107274 - 107274

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Global Occurrence and Environmental Fate of Microplastics in Stormwater Runoff: Unlock the In-depth Knowledge on Nature-Based Removal Strategies DOI
Van-Hiep Hoang, Minh‐Ky Nguyen, Tuan‐Dung Hoang

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 263(1)

Published: Jan. 28, 2025

Language: Английский

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Microplastic effects on mouse colon in normal and colitis conditions: A literature review DOI Creative Commons
Н. А. Золотова, D. Sh. Dzhalilova, И. С. Цветков

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PeerJ, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13, P. e18880 - e18880

Published: Feb. 10, 2025

Background Taking into account the global spread of microplastic (MP) pollution, problem MP impact on human health is relevant. enters organism predominantly with water and food, mostly detected in large intestine. Therefore, connection between pollution increase colitis an important question. In order to assess toxic pathogenetic effects MP, experimental studies were actively conducted during recent years, mainly laboratory mice. Objectives The aim our review was summarize systematize data effect mice colon under normal conditions role development intestinal diseases. This manuscript could be relevant for ecologists, biologists, physicians dealing problems related anthropogenic environmental changes inflammatory bowel Survey Methodology search based PubMed about original healthy colitis. Results colon, can cause oxidative stress, increased permeability, immune cell infiltration, production proinflammatory factors, decreased mucus production. affects proliferation, apoptosis, differentiation epithelial cells, expression tight junction components glycocalyx, membrane transport, signaling pathways, metabolome, microflora composition. acute chronic colitis, consumption leads a more pronounced pathological process course. Conclusions may one factors contributing humans. However, further research needed.

Language: Английский

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