Global status of micro/nano-plastic pollution and its effect on climate change

Sheikh, Ayan, Shrivastava, Vaishanavi, Sharma, Eti, Gaur, Nisha, Kumar, Shubham and Mittal, Shashank (2024) Global status of micro/nano-plastic pollution and its effect on climate change. In: Societal and Environmental Ramifications of Plastic Pollution. IGI Global, pp. 1-26.

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Abstract

MNPs, by the virtue of their extremely small size are very potent in causing huge destruction to our environment and local ecosystems. MNPs impart a sustaining damage on our atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and collectively on our biosphere. They can be easily transported and spread to distant locations from their source of origination, thanks to their small size and light weight characteristics. Once out in the wild, MNPs are very hard to get filtered out from our environment and degraded. MNPs cause a lot of negative impact on our aquatic as well as the soil ecosystem. They hinder the activities of natural microflora of these ecosystems as well as they get into our food chains via plants, fishes, etc. Once incorporated into our food chain, MNPs leave a drastic effect on every trophic level, with most acute and severe effect on the higher trophic levels i.e. tertiary trophic level which includes humans.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: Microplastic nanoparticles (MNPs) | Environmental pollution | Ecosystem disruption | Food chain contamination | Trophic levels impacts
Subjects: Physical, Life and Health Sciences > Environmental Science, Policy and Law
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Health (Social sciences)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Business School
Depositing User: Dharmveer Modi
Date Deposited: 23 Oct 2024 17:58
Last Modified: 23 Oct 2024 17:58
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-9163-1.ch001
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/8713

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