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Surface properties and rising velocities of pristine and weathered plastic pellets.

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Plastic Pollution in Paradise: Analyzing Plastic Litter on Malta’s Beaches and Assessing the Release of Potentially Toxic Elements

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Micro- and mesoplastics in sea surface water from a Northern Adriatic coastal area

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Micro and nanoplastic toxicity on aquatic life: fate, effect and remediation strategy

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Difference in polypropylene fragmentation mechanism between marine and terrestrial regions

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Land use, stratified wastewater and sediment, and microplastic attribute factors jointly influence the microplastic prevalence and bacterial colonization patterns in sewer habitats

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Two sides of the same coin: Weathering differences of plastic fragments in coastal environments around the globe

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A systematic review and scientometrics analysis on microplastic pollution on coastal beaches around the globe

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Ocean Rafting: Marine Litter and Benthic Stopovers Amplify Species Dispersal Opportunities

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Evidence of elevated microplastic accumulation in Pacific Island mangrove sediments

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The risks of marine micro/nano-plastics on seafood safety and human health

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Numerical investigation of the three-dimensional paths of plastic polymers in the Gulf of Naples

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First report on the detection of microplastics from the feathers of black-tailed gulls in South Korea

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Characterization, surface deformation analysis and sources of small plastic fragments collected in diverse environments of Egypt

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Quantifying marine debris associated with coastal golf courses

Weber, A. K., Weber, M. W., & Savoca, M. S. (2019) · Marine Pollution Bulletin · doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.01.013 · Cited by 9

Assessing the Biological Effects of Exposure to Microplastics in the Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (Linnaeus 1758)

Katzenberger, T. D. (2015) · White Rose eTheses Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) · Cited by 9

Microplastics in the sediments of the Tijuana River Basin, Mexico

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A qualitative method for detecting microplastics in liquid herbal medicine using gold nanoparticle SERS substrates

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A year-long field study of buried plastics reveals underestimation of plastic pollution on Hawaiian beaches

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Molecular insights into physiological impact of micro- and nano-plastics on the digestive system and gut-brain axis

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Emerging issues and challenges for plastic bioremediation

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Microplastics in the continuous biofilm reactor: Occurrence, fate, and removal

Nur, A., Soewondo, P., Setiyawan, A. S., & Oginawati, K. (2022) · IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science · doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1065/1/012012 · Cited by 8

Characteristics of microplastic pollution and temporal-spatial distribution in the sediments of the five rivers in the Lake Poyang Basin

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Quantitative analysis of microplastics in wastewater from treatment plant by visual identification and FT-IR imaging using H2O2 and FeSO4: A case study

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Urbanization increases microplastic pollution in beach sediments along the Chennai Coast, South India

Jeylaputheen, M. A., Sekar, S., Perumal, M., Parthiban, A., Roy, P. D., Elzain, H. E., & Kamaraj, J. (2025) · Marine Pollution Bulletin · doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.119137 · Cited by 7

Computational polarimetric holography for efficient microplastic classification via a lightweight wavelet-enhanced vision transformer

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Sinking Together? Settling Behavior of Microplastics in the Presence of Fine Sediments

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Consequences of anthropogenic activities and beach dynamics on vertical distribution of microplastics in the mid-intertidal sediments of Donghai Island, China

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Characterization of Microplastics Using Fourier Infrared Spectroscopy

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Detection of Microplastic Contamination in Commercial Insect Meals

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Features of the distribution of microplastics on sandy beaches of the Kaliningrad region (the Baltic Sea)

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Quantitative Analysis of Debris and Plastic Pollution on Beaches in Northern Madagascar

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Human health and ecological risks associated with microplastic contamination in widely consumed catfish from a large-scale estuary

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Optimization of plastic polymers for shellfish aquaculture infrastructures: in situ antifouling performance assessment

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Seasonal Variations in Microplastic Pollution in Beach Sediments along the Eastern Coast of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

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Microplastics in Antarctic air: revealing current findings

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Microplastic in Coastal Areas - Impact of Waves, Sediments and Saltwater on the Degradation Behaviour

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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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