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Source, migration and toxicology of microplastics in soil

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Investigating microplastic trophic transfer in marine top predators

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Adsorption behavior of organic pollutants on microplastics

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Characteristic of microplastics in the atmospheric fallout from Dongguan city, China: preliminary research and first evidence

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Distribution and potential health impacts of microplastics and microrubbers in air and street dusts from Asaluyeh County, Iran

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Simulating human exposure to indoor airborne microplastics using a Breathing Thermal Manikin

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Occurrence, sources, human health impacts and mitigation of microplastic pollution

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Internalization and toxicity: A preliminary study of effects of nanoplastic particles on human lung epithelial cell

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Review of micro- and nanoplastic contamination in the food chain

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Simplifying Microplastic via Continuous Probability Distributions for Size, Shape, and Density

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Microplastics in human food chains: Food becoming a threat to health safety

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Microplastic pollution in lakes and lake shoreline sediments—A case study on Lake Bolsena and Lake Chiusi (central Italy)

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Observation of the degradation of three types of plastic pellets exposed to UV irradiation in three different environments

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Are we underestimating microplastic abundance in the marine environment? A comparison of microplastic capture with nets of different mesh-size

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Synthetic microfibers in the marine environment: a review on their occurrence in seawater and sediments

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A review on microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment: Their occurrence, exposure routes, toxic studies, and potential effects on human health.

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Polystyrene microplastics induced female reproductive toxicity in mice

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Microplastics entering northwestern Lake Ontario are diverse and linked to urban sources

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Micro(nano)plastics pollution and human health: How plastics can induce carcinogenesis to humans?

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Urban stormwater runoff: a major pathway for anthropogenic particles, black rubbery fragments, and other types of microplastics to urban receiving waters

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Sampling and Quality Assurance and Quality Control: A Guide for Scientists Investigating the Occurrence of Microplastics Across Matrices

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Direct radiative effects of airborne microplastics

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Micro- and Nanoplastics in Alpine Snow: A New Method for Chemical Identification and (Semi)Quantification in the Nanogram Range

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Microplastic fibers—Underestimated threat to aquatic organisms

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Microplastics in Drinking Water: A Review and Assessment

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Analytical methodologies for monitoring micro(nano)plastics: Which are fit for purpose?

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Are We Underestimating Anthropogenic Microfiber Pollution? A Critical Review of Occurrence, Methods, and Reporting

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An overview of analytical methods for detecting microplastics in the atmosphere

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Using Numerical Model Simulations to Improve the Understanding of Micro-plastic Distribution and Pathways in the Marine Environment

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Insight into microplastics in the aquatic ecosystem: Properties, sources, threats and mitigation strategies

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Bioretention cells remove microplastics from urban stormwater

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Shape Matters: Long-Range Transport of Microplastic Fibers in the Atmosphere

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Microplastics in lakes and rivers: An issue of emerging significance to limnology

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Inhalable microplastics prevails in air: exploring the size detection limit

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Raman Spectral Imaging for the Detection of Inhalable Microplastics in Ambient Particulate Matter Samples

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Newly emerging airborne pollutants: current knowledge of health impact of micro and nanoplastics

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Formation of environmentally persistent free radicals on microplastics under UV irradiations

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Nanoplastics and ultrafine microplastic in the dutch Wadden Sea - the hidden plastics debris?

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A review of analytical methods and models used in atmospheric microplastic research

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Glitters as a Source of Primary Microplastics: An Approach to Environmental Responsibility and Ethics

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Occurrence and backtracking of microplastic mass loads including tire wear particles in northern Atlantic air

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Microplastic contamination in Great Lakes fish

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Sources, distribution and fate of microfibres on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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Examining the release of synthetic microfibres to the environment via two major pathways: Atmospheric deposition and treated wastewater effluent

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Documentation of Microplastics in Tissues of Wild Coastal Animals

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Is Wild Marine Biota Affected by Microplastics?

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Modelled sources of airborne microplastics collected at a remote Southern Hemisphere site

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