Hsin-Tien Lin, Falk Schneider, Muhamad Afiq Aziz, Keng Yinn Wong, Kantha D Arunachalam, Sarva Mangala Praveena, Sumathi Sethupathi, Woon Chan Chong, Ayu Lana Nafisyah, Purushothaman Parthasarathy, Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan, Alexander Kunz
Microplastics pose a significant environmental threat, with potential implications for toxic chemical release, aquatic life endangerment, and human food chain contamination. In Asia, rapid economic growth coupled with inadequate waste management has escalated plastic pollution in rivers, positioning them as focal points for environmental concern. Despite Asia's rivers being considered the most polluted with plastics globally, scholarly attention to microplastics in the region's freshwater environments is a recent development...
April 13, 2024: Environmental Pollution