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Microplastics in stormwater runoff in a semiarid region, Tijuana, Mexico

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An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record

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Microplastic pollution in surface water of Lake Victoria

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Questions of size and numbers in environmental research on microplastics: methodological and conceptual aspects

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Abundance, characteristics and surface degradation features of microplastics in beach sediments of five coastal areas in Tamil Nadu, India

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Degradation-fragmentation of marine plastic waste and their environmental implications: A critical review

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Detection and removal of microplastics in wastewater: evolution and impact

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The occurrence and degradation of aquatic plastic litter based on polymer physicochemical properties: A review

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Microplastics in landfill leachate: Sources, detection, occurrence, and removal

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Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Sources, Fates, Impacts and Microbial Degradation

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Effects of Toxic Leachate from Commercial Plastics on Larval Survival and Settlement of the Barnacle Amphibalanus amphitrite

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Linking effects of microplastics to ecological impacts in marine environments

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Microplastic particles in the aquatic environment: A systematic review

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Microplastics in the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs): Occurrence and removal

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Aging assessment of microplastics (LDPE, PET and uPVC) under urban environment stressors

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Occurrence, distribution and affecting factors of microplastics in agricultural soils along the lower reaches of Yangtze River, China

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Daily accumulation rates of marine debris on sub-Antarctic island beaches

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Effects of Chemical and Mechanical Weathering Processes on the Degradation of Plastic Debris on Marine Beaches

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Plastics and beaches: A degrading relationship

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Developing ToF‐SIMS methods for investigating the degradation of plastic debris on beaches

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Polymers Out in The Sun (POTS): Chemical analysis of plastic photodegradation timescales over one year in Hawaiʻi

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An investigation into the stability and degradation of plastics in aquatic environments using a large-scale field-deployment study

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