2025 March - 14 articles
The purpose of this study is to determine the plastic wear of the cartridge filter casing 01WTKF (Wolftechnik Filtersysteme GmbH & Co. KG, Weil der Stadt, Germany) when exposed to sand, sediment, and ice at temperatures below 0 °C, both in la...
Microplastics pose a significant environmental threat, and understanding their sources and generation mechanisms is crucial for mitigation efforts. This study investigates the effects of ultraviolet intensity, temperature, and relative humidity on th...
This study focuses on the deposition of microplastics (MPs) on urban beaches along the central São Paulo coastline, utilizing advanced methodologies such as remote sensing, GNSS altimetric surveys, µ-Raman spectroscopy, and machine learn...
Microplastics (MPs) are currently a serious environmental problem, primarily due to their persistence in the environment, low concentration, and difficulty in detection and disposal. MPs have also been detected in humans and have been shown to be har...
Microplastics, remnants of macroplastics that have broken down to fragments smaller than 5 mm, and nanoplastics, broken down even further to sizes < 1 μm, are pervasive in aquatic ecosystems. These plastic particles are consumed by microscopic...
Rivers are recognized as major unilateral pathways of microplastic transport between terrestrial and marine ecosystems, yet our understanding of their dispersal patterns over space and through time as they migrate from source to sink is limited. In t...
Rubber materials enter aquatic environments by stormwater runoff via sources such as playground mulch, athletic fields, and roadway surfaces. Tire rubbers are considered plastics as they comprise a substantial portion of synthetic polymers. Rubber pa...
Biodegradable materials are emerging as a sustainable alternative to conventional petroleum-based plastics across packaging, sanitation, and agriculture sectors. These materials naturally decompose into harmless substances within a specified period,...
Microplastics (MP) are ubiquitous contaminants in diverse environmental matrices, including biota. Urban birds, such as pigeons (Columba livia), are particularly vulnerable to MP exposure due to their scavenging habits and proximity to human activiti...
Microplastics (MPs) are plastic particles ranging from 1000 to 5000 µm in diameter, posing a growing environmental and health risk. Composting is an excellent way to add nutrient-rich humus to the soil to boost plant development, but it also po...
Micro-nano plastics (MNPs) are emerging environmental and food contaminants that are raising serious health concerns. Due to the polycontamination of the food web with environmental pollutants (EPs), and now MNPs, the co-ingestion of EPs and MNPs is...
Technical retrofit Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDSs) are a suitable option in the numerous mitigation measures to reduce the amount of tyre wear entering the environment. In the study presented here, such a filter system was tested under extreme c...
This study addresses the pressing need for standardized methodologies to quantify microplastics (MPs) within the fine fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW), often overlooked despite its potential environmental impact. Five extraction protocols were...
Nanoplastics (NPs) and microplastics (MPs) are an emerging threat to global health. They negatively impact ecosystems and many physiological processes, causing alterations in xenobiotic metabolism, nutrient uptake, energy metabolism, or cytotoxicity....
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