Microplastics in aquatic systems, a comprehensive review: origination, accumulation, impact, and removal technologies.


Journal

RSC advances
ISSN: 2046-2069
Titre abrégé: RSC Adv
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101581657

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
04 Oct 2022
Historique:
received: 28 07 2022
accepted: 29 09 2022
entrez: 2 11 2022
pubmed: 3 11 2022
medline: 3 11 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Although the discovery of plastic in the last century has brought enormous benefits to daily activities, it must be said that its use produces countless environmental problems that are difficult to solve. The indiscriminate use and the increase in industrial production of cleaning, cosmetic, packaging, fertilizer, automotive, construction and pharmaceutical products have introduced tons of plastics and microplastics into the environment. The latter are of greatest concern due to their size and their omnipresence in the various environmental sectors. Today, they represent a contaminant of increasing ecotoxicological interest especially in aquatic environments due to their high stability and diffusion. In this regard, this critical review aims to describe the different sources of microplastics, emphasizing their effects in aquatic ecosystems and the danger to the health of living beings, while examining, at the same time, those few modelling studies conducted to estimate the future impact of plastic towards the marine ecosystem. Furthermore, this review summarizes the latest scientific advances related to removal techniques, evaluating their advantages and disadvantages. The final purpose is to highlight the great environmental problem that we are going to face in the coming decades, and the need to develop appropriate strategies to invert the current scenario as well as better performing removal techniques to minimize the environmental impacts of microplastics.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36320515
doi: 10.1039/d2ra04713f
pii: d2ra04713f
pmc: PMC9531539
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Pagination

28318-28340

Informations de copyright

This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

There are no conflicts to declare.

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Auteurs

Antonio Tursi (A)

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, University of Calabria Via P. Bucci, Cubo 15D, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy antonio.tursi@unical.it.

Mariafrancesca Baratta (M)

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, University of Calabria Via P. Bucci, Cubo 15D, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy antonio.tursi@unical.it.

Thomas Easton (T)

School of Engineering, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, University of Edinburgh The King's Buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JL UK.

Efthalia Chatzisymeon (E)

School of Engineering, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, University of Edinburgh The King's Buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JL UK.

Francesco Chidichimo (F)

Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Calabria Via P. Bucci, Cubo 42B, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy.

Michele De Biase (M)

Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Calabria Via P. Bucci, Cubo 42B, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy.

Giovanni De Filpo (G)

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, University of Calabria Via P. Bucci, Cubo 15D, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy antonio.tursi@unical.it.

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