TEXT: Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh & Mandar Bandekar There are many political and social activities that have been initiated to ban single-use plastics, mitigate plastic pollution, and reduce plastic productions/consumption. The toxicity of different types of plastics has been investigated, however, researchers mostly used polystyrene as a model of microplastics. The question still remains unanswered whether […]

TEXT: Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh & Mandar Bandekar Over the last 60 years plastics are widely used for their attractive properties (Lei et al., 2018), and increased production rate has led to its accumulation and distribution across the ecosystems. In the environment, plastics can undergo weathering through series of mechanical/biological fragmentation, leading to formation of microplastics […]