ReviewCurrent opinion in environmental science & health2023
Microplastic pollution and associated health hazards: Impact of COVID-19 pandemic.
Review in Current opinion in environmental science & health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Advances in the Application of Aerobic Granular Sludge for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants in Municipal and Industrial Wastewater.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Microplastic Pollution: A Global Environmental Crisis Impacting Marine Life, Human Health, and Potential Innovative Sustainable Solutions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- [Crisis resilience in medical practices and clinics].Dermatologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Review
- Occurrence, detection and ecotoxicity of microplastics in selected environments-a systematic appraisal.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Fully Biodegradable Elastomer-Based Device for Oral Macromolecule Delivery.ACS applied bio materials · 2024Article
- Biodegradation of Nitrile Gloves as Sole Carbon Source ofPolymers · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in plastic used for medical purposes such as personal protective equipment and packaging materials. A very low share of plastics is recycled while the majority is sent to landfills. This plastic may degrade over time to form microplastics which may pollute land, air, and water sources. An increase in microplastics can increase the disease risk in human well-being's. The ultimate fate of microplastic is accumulation inside the human body posing the risk of different health conditions like cancer, diabetes, and allergic reactions. Hence, proper detection and disposal methods should be devised to deal with the rise in microplastic pollution.
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