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Micro/nano-plastics occurrence, identification, risk analysis and mitigation: challenges and perspectives

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Kiran, Boda Ravi, Kopperi, Harishankar, Venkata Mohan, S.·2022·Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology

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Micro/nanoplastics (MP/NPs) are emerging global pollutants that garnered enormous attention due to their potential threat to the ecosystem in virtue of their persistence and accumulation. Notably, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) yearbook in 2014 proposed MPs as one among ten emergent issues that the Earth is facing today. MP/NPs can be found in most regularly used products (primary microplastics) or formed by the fragmentation of bigger plastics (secondary microplastics) and are inextricably discharged into the environment by terrestrial and land-based sources, particularly runoff. They are non-degradable, biologically incompatible, and their presence in the air, soil, water, and food can induce ecotoxicological issues and also a menace to the environment. Due to micro size and diverse chemical nature, MP/NPs easily infiltrate wastewater treatment processes. This communication reviews the current understanding of MP/NPs occurrence, mobility, aggregation behavior, and degradation/assimilation in terrestrial, aquatic (fresh & marine), atmospheric depositions, wetlands and trophic food chain. This communication provide current perspectives and understanding on MP/NPs concerning (1) Source, occurrence, distribution, and properties (2) Impact on the ecosystem and its services, (3) Techniques in detection and identification and (4) Strategies to manage and mitigation.

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Authors
Kiran, B. R., Kopperi, H., & Venkata Mohan, S.
Venue
Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology
Published
2022-01-27
Volume
21
Issue
1
Pages
169-203
ISSN
  • 1569-1705 (ISSN-L)
  • 1572-9826
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W4210266455
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268
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234
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11.34
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journal article
Language
en
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