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The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

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Single-use plastics: Production, usage, disposal, and adverse impacts

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Recent advances in toxicological research of nanoplastics in the environment: A review

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Degradation of plastics and plastic-degrading bacteria in cold marine habitats

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

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Marine Microbial Assemblages on Microplastics: Diversity, Adaptation, and Role in Degradation

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

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Microplastics in the Arctic: A Case Study with Sub-Surface Water and Fish Samples off Northeast Greenland

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No increase in marine microplastic concentration over the last three decades – a case study from the Baltic Sea

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A plastic world: A review of microplastic pollution in the freshwaters of the Earth's poles

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

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Boops boops as a Bioindicator of Microplastic Pollution along the Spanish Catalan Coast

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Degradable PE-Based Copolymer with Controlled Ester Structure Incorporation by Cobalt-Mediated Radical Copolymerization under Mild Condition

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Are Anthropogenic Fibres a Real Problem for Red Mullets (Mullus barbatus) from the NW Mediterranean?

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Intertidal zone effects on Occurrence, fate and potential risks of microplastics with perspectives under COVID-19 pandemic

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Occurrence and sources of microplastics on Arctic beaches: Svalbard

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