Microplastic Pollution: Environmental Occurrence and Treatment Technologies

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030892190
• ISBN13: 9783030892197
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 550 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"