Anthropocene Coasts, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 7(1)

Published: Dec. 31, 2024

Abstract The environment provides endless assistance for the wellbeing of all living organisms. However, can be stressed due to anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic pollutants. Plastics have been identified as a persistent pollutant that has stressing over few decades. Among these hazardous plastics, accumulation microplastics (MPs) growing global issue. MPs are generally defined small pieces plastic less than 5 mm in diameter. Considering source, two categories identified, primary secondary MPs, it recognized released into during production, transportation, product usage, maintenance. Different processes including physical, chemical, photodegradation, biological degradations tend break plastics MP fragments, which include well nanoplastics. degradation processes, physical is prominent coastal regions, chemical occur corrosive chemicals, acids, gases, atmospheric pollutants, was case recent MV X-Press Pearl disaster Indian Ocean. methodologies applied pretreatment, separation, detection, identification, quantification MPs. Digestion complex substances ultracentrifugation or ultrafiltration utilized pretreatment methods, whereas density, magnetic electrostatic separations, filtration, size-exclusion chromatography practiced separation methods Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, atomic force (AFM), mass spectrometry main analytical detection. ecological risk affects marine environment, freshwater soil ultimately influencing human health. To remediate issue, removal being developed, with currently progressing sorption ingestion, treatments, membrane separation. prospects, need conduct meta-analyses, compare data from different studies done various geographic regions important, which, among other related topics such policy development, discussed thoroughly through this review article.

Language: Английский