Airborne microplastics in urban, rural and wildland environments on the Tibetan Plateau

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

Roland Geyer, Jenna Jambeck, Kara Lavender Law · Science Advances · 2017 · 17.6K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Materials Science +14

Atmospheric transport and deposition of microplastics in a remote mountain catchment

Steve Allen, Deonie Allen, Vernon R. Phoenix et al. · Nature Geoscience · 2019 · 2.3K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences +14

Microplastics and human health

A. Dick Vethaak, Juliette Legler · Science · 2021 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Pharmacy, Environmental Sciences, Toxicology +12

White and wonderful? Microplastics prevail in snow from the Alps to the Arctic

Melanie Bergmann, Sophia Mützel, Sebastian Primpke et al. · Science Advances · 2019 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry +15

Our plastic age

Richard C. Thompson, Shanna H. Swan, Charles J. Moore et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2009 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Public Affairs, Environmental Policy, Environmental Sciences +17