This volume discusses the growing issue of global environmental microplastic pollution resulting from the industrial manufacturing of everyday products. The book focuses on the emergence of microplastic pollution, types, sources, fate, dynamic trends in the environment, occurrence in different environmental settings, toxicity, risk assessment, and prevention strategies. The authors provide a detailed explanation and provision of the techniques used for the detection, separation, and identification of microplastics for use by industry workers and scientists, along with policy recommendations for legislative bodies to reduce the spread and impact of harmful microplastics. The book will be of use to students, teachers, researchers, policy makers, and environmental organizations.
Part1. Introduction to Plastic pollution.- Chapter1. Emerging issue of
Microplastic in Sediments and Surface water of South Asia: A Review of
Status, Research Needs and Data Gaps.
Chapter2. Extraction, Enumeration and
Identification Methods for Monitoring Microplastics in the Aquatic
Environment.
Chapter3. Monitoring of Microplastic Pollution.-
Chapter4. Polymer types of microplastic in coastal areas.-
Chapter5. Evaluation of Different Metrics to Study Microplastics as an
Environmental Forensic Tool.- Part2. Environmental Occurrence.-
Chapter6. Atmospheric microplastic distribution, fate, and behaviour in
context to pollution.
Chapter7. Microplastic Pollution in the Context of
Occurrence, Distribution, Composition, and Concentration in Surface Waters
and Sediments: A Global Overview.
Chapter8. Microplastic Pollution in the
Black Sea: An Overview of the Current Situation.
Chapter9. Occurrence and
fate of microplastics in freshwater resources.- Chapter10. Occurrence of
microplastic pollution in freshwater.
Chapter11. Occurrence of Microplastic
Pollution in Coastal Areas.
Chapter12. Modeling the fate and transport of
microplastics in coastal areas.- Chapter13. Occurrence of microplastic
pollution in marine water.- Part III. Risk assessment and health
impact.- Chapter14. Microplastic Pollution and Contamination of Seafood
(including fish, sharks, mussels, oysters, shrimps, and seaweeds): A Global
Overview.
Chapter15. Impacts of Plasticizers on Riverine Ecological
Integrity in Context to Sustainability Challenges.
Chapter16. Consequences
of Plastic Trash on Behavior and Ecology of Birds.- Chapter17. Risk
assessment of microplastic pollution.
Chapter18. The ecotoxicological
effects of microplastics on trophic levels of aquatic ecosystems.-
Chapter19. Ecological and public health effects of microplastics pollution.-
PartIV. Treatment Technologies.
Chapter20. Microplastics as an emerged
contaminant and its potential treatment technologies.
Chapter21. Green
treatment technologies for microplastic pollution.
Chapter22. Chemical
Technologies to degrade microplastic pollution.
Chapter23. Bibliometric
Analysis of Emerging Trends in Research on Microplastic Pollution in
Post-Paris Agreement and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World.
Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Chemistry at COMSATS University Islamabad Campus, Pakistan. Dr. Hashmi works on multiple water, soil, air and health related issues, and has expertise in developing environmentally sustainable and feasible technologies.
