at Google ScholarTitle data
Laforsch, Christian ; Vizsolyi, Eva Cseperke ; Ramsperger, Anja ; Wieland, Simon ; Brehm, Julian ; Ritschar, Sven ; Kress, Holger ; Löder, Martin G. J.:
Environmental Fate and Effects of Microplastics on Organisms.
In: Buettner, Andrea ; Weidner, Eckhard
(ed.):
Springer Handbook of Circular Plastics Economy. -
Cham
: Springer
,
2025
. - pp. 793-807
. - (Springer Handbooks
)
ISBN 978-3-031-66208-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66209-6_40
Project information
| Project title: |
Project's official title Project's id PlasticsFatE - Plastics fate and effects in the human body 965367 SFB 1357: MIKROPLASTIK – Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Bildung, des Transports, des physikalisch-chemischen Verhaltens sowie der biologischen Effekte: Von Modell- zu komplexen Systemen als Grundlage neuer Lösungsansätze 391977956 microplastic@food 298 EBG |
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| Project financing: |
European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Elitenetzwerk Bayern |
Abstract in another language
Plastic products have countless applications in all areas of our everyday life. The tremendous economic success of plastics is based on its low production costs in combination with its versatile material properties. Its durability, together with an inadequate disposal followed by fragmentation due to weathering or abrasion of particles from plastic products during usage, led to an ongoing accumulation of microscopically small plastic particles, so-called microplastics in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Various organisms from all environmental compartments, including humans, frequently encounter and internalize these microplastics. Once internalized, microplastics may have adverse effects on organisms. Interaction with an organism and effects of microplastics are diverse and are found on different levels of biological organization from the whole organism over tissues down to single cells.
In this book chapter, we address the occurrence and fate of microplastics in the environment and focus on possible impacts of microplastics on environmental and human health. In relation to the focus of this chapter, we further discuss future perspectives in microplastic research.