Microplastics as carriers of toxic pollutants: Source, transport, and toxicological effects

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

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

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Degradation Rates of Plastics in the Environment

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Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environments: Aggregation, Deposition, and Enhanced Contaminant Transport

Olubukola S. Alimi, Jeffrey M. Farner, Laura M. Hernandez et al. · Environmental Science & Technology · 2017 · 2.6K citations · Full text

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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

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Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems

Anderson Abel de Souza Machado, Werner Kloas, Christiane Zarfl et al. · Global Change Biology · 2017 · 2.3K citations · Full text

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