Challenges and opportunities in bioremediation of micro-nano plastics: A review

A comprehensive biotechnological and molecular insight into plastic degradation by microbial community

(2021) Anshu Priya et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Wastewater treatment alters microbial colonization of microplastics

(2021) John J. Kelly et al.   PLoS One

Plastics and the microbiome: impacts and solutions

(2021) G. Lear et al.   Environmental Microbiome

Detection and removal of microplastics in wastewater: evolution and impact

(2021) Thuhin K. Dey et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Single-use surgical face masks, as a potential source of microplastics: Do they act as pollutant carriers?

(2021) Ioannis Anastopoulos et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS

Occurrence and removal of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants and drinking water purification facilities: A review

(2021) Yan Laam Cheng et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

A critical review on microplastics, interaction with organic and inorganic pollutants, impacts and effectiveness of advanced oxidation processes applied for their removal from aqueous matrices

(2021) Ivo A. Ricardo et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Micro (Nano) Plastic Pollution: The Ecological Influence on Soil-Plant System and Human Health

(2021) Mintallah Mousa A. Allouzi et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Solid waste: An overlooked source of microplastics to the environment

(2021) Harmita Golwala et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The degradation performance of different microplastics and their effect on microbial community during composting process

(2021) Yue Sun et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Are microplastics destabilizing the global network of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem services?

(2021) Srinidhi Sridharan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Role of microbial diversity to influence the growth and environmental remediation capacity of bamboo: A review

(2021) Priya Fuke et al.   INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS

Microplastic degradation as a sustainable concurrent approach for producing biofuel and obliterating hazardous environmental effects: A state-of-the-art review

(2021) Arjay A. Arpia et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Abundance, interaction, ingestion, ecological concerns, and mitigation policies of microplastic pollution in riverine ecosystem: A review

(2021) Rakesh Kumar et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microplastics in seawater and zooplankton: A case study from Terengganu estuary and offshore waters, Malaysia

(2021) Zakaria Daoud Taha et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Plastic wastes biodegradation: Mechanisms, challenges and future prospects

(2021) Sameh S. Ali et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Micro- and nanoplastics in wastewater treatment plants: Occurrence, removal, fate, impacts and remediation technologies – A critical review

(2021) Imran Ali et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Microplastics pollution in the Brahmaputra River and the Indus River of the Indian Himalaya

(2021) Tenzin Tsering et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microplastics in inland freshwater environments with different regional functions: A case study on the Chengdu Plain

(2021) Xintong Li et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Concentrations of bisphenol A and its alternatives in paired maternal–fetal urine, serum and amniotic fluid from an e-waste dismantling area in China

(2020) Bo Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Phylogenetic Diversity of Microbial Communities from the Surface of Polyethylene Terephthalate Materials Exposed to Different Water Environments

(2020) T. P. Tourova et al.   MICROBIOLOGY

Metagenomic exploration of plastic degrading microbes for biotechnological application

(2020) Jyotika Purohit et al.   CURRENT GENOMICS

Source, migration and toxicology of microplastics in soil

(2020) Jing-Jie Guo et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Modulation of PAH toxicity on the freshwater organism G. roeseli by microparticles

(2020) Astrid Bartonitz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Biodegradation of Polystyrene by Pseudomonas sp. Isolated from the Gut of Superworms (Larvae of Zophobas atratus)

(2020) Hong Rae Kim et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Do combined nanoscale polystyrene and tetracycline impact on the incidence of resistance genes and microbial community disturbance in Enchytraeus crypticus?

(2020) Jun Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Microbial degradation and other environmental aspects of microplastics/plastics

(2020) Jianhua Yuan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microbial Degradation and Valorization of Plastic Wastes

(2020) Jiakang Ru et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microplastics provide new microbial niches in aquatic environments

(2020) Yuyi Yang et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microplastics enhance the developmental toxicity of synthetic phenolic antioxidants by disturbing the thyroid function and metabolism in developing zebrafish

(2020) Hua-Jin Zhao et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Microplastic pollution reduction by a carbon and nitrogen-doped TiO2: Effect of pH and temperature in the photocatalytic degradation process

(2020) Maria Camila Ariza-Tarazona et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) degradation by Yarrowia lipolytica: Investigations on cell growth, enzyme production and monomers consumption

(2020) Andressa Maio da Costa et al.   PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY

Plastic rain in protected areas of the United States

(2020) Janice Brahney et al.   SCIENCE

Polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) toxicity induced oxidative stress and intestinal injury in nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

(2020) Yunjiang Yu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

First Insights into Photocatalytic Degradation of HDPE and LDPE Microplastics by a Mesoporous N–TiO2 Coating: Effect of Size and Shape of Microplastics

(2020) Brenda Estefanía Llorente-García et al.   Coatings

Plastic and plants

(2020) Matthias C. Rillig   Nature Sustainability

Complete Photocatalytic Mineralization of Microplastic on TiO2 Nanoparticle Film

(2020) Iqra Nabi et al.   iScience

Microplastics as pollutants in agricultural soils

(2020) Manish Kumar et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microbial remediation of micro-nano plastics: Current knowledge and future trends

(2020) Neha Tiwari et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Environmental Source, Fate, and Toxicity of Microplastics

(2020) Chunhui Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Visible Light Photocatalytic Degradation of Polypropylene Microplastics in a Continuous Water Flow System

(2020) Abdusalam Uheida et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for plastics depolymerization

(2020) Brandon C. Knott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microplastic regulation should be more precise to incentivize both innovation and environmental safety

(2020) Denise M. Mitrano et al.   Nature Communications

Biodegradation of expanded polystyrene and low-density polyethylene foams in larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): Broad versus limited extent depolymerization and microbe-dependence versus independence

(2020) Li Yang et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

A review of the removal of microplastics in global wastewater treatment plants: Characteristics and mechanisms

(2020) Weiyi Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Treatment of microplastics in water by anodic oxidation: A case study for polystyrene

(2020) Marthe Kiendrebeogo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics could be a threat to plants in terrestrial systems directly or indirectly

(2020) Noreen Khalid et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Current research trends on micro- and nano-plastics as an emerging threat to global environment: A review

(2020) Manish Kumar et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Environmental fate, toxicity and risk management strategies of nanoplastics in the environment: Current status and future perspectives

(2020) Liuwei Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Interactive effects of microplastics and selected pharmaceuticals on red tilapia: Role of microplastic aging

(2020) Yejing Huang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Toxicological effects of microplastics and phenanthrene to zebrafish (Danio rerio)

(2020) Kaihang Xu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Exploring the long-term effect of plastic on compost microbiome

(2019) Ebenezer Oluwaseun Esan et al.   PLoS One

Microplastic effects on plants

(2019) Matthias C. Rillig et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Targeting microplastic particles in the void of diluted suspensions

(2019) Shohana Islam et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Current knowledge on enzymatic PET degradation and its possible application to waste stream management and other fields

(2019) Fusako Kawai et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Biodegradation of micro-polyethylene particles by bacterial colonization of a mixed microbial consortium isolated from a landfill site

(2019) Seon Yeong Park et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Effects of polyethylene microplastics on the gut microbial community, reproduction and avoidance behaviors of the soil springtail, Folsomia candida

(2019) Hui Ju et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Leachates of micronized plastic toys provoke embryotoxic effects upon sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus

(2019) Maria Oliviero et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics in municipal mixed-waste organic outputs induce minimal short to long-term toxicity in key terrestrial biota

(2019) Jonathan D. Judy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Single and combined effects of microplastics and roxithromycin on Daphnia magna

(2019) Peng Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Microplastics in wastewater treatment plants: Detection, occurrence and removal

(2019) Jing Sun et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Microbial Ecotoxicology of Marine Plastic Debris: A Review on Colonization and Biodegradation by the “Plastisphere”

(2019) Justine Jacquin et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Marine Microbial Assemblages on Microplastics: Diversity, Adaptation, and Role in Degradation

(2019) Sonja Oberbeckmann et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Plastics: Microbial Degradation, Environmental and Biotechnological Perspectives

(2019) Dominik Danso et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Uptake and adverse effects of polyethylene terephthalate microplastics fibers on terrestrial snails (Achatina fulica) after soil exposure

(2019) Yang Song et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Ecotoxicity and genotoxicity of polystyrene microplastics on higher plant Vicia faba

(2019) Xiaofeng Jiang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Nanoplastics Decrease the Toxicity of a Complex PAH Mixture but Impair Mitochondrial Energy Production in Developing Zebrafish

(2019) Rafael Trevisan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Effects of combined exposures of fluoranthene and polyethylene or polyhydroxybutyrate microplastics on oxidative stress biomarkers in the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis)

(2019) Gabriele Magara et al.   JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH-PART A-CURRENT ISSUES

Methodologies to assess biodegradation of bioplastics during aerobic composting and anaerobic digestion: A review

(2019) Federica Ruggero et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH

Structure of the plastic-degrading Ideonella sakaiensis MHETase bound to a substrate

(2019) Gottfried J. Palm et al.   Nature Communications

Exposure to microplastics lowers arsenic accumulation and alters gut bacterial communities of earthworm Metaphire californica

(2019) Hong-Tao Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Effects of Microplastics in Soil Ecosystems: Above and Below Ground

(2019) Bas Boots et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Biodegradation of mixture of plastic films by tailored marine consortia

(2019) Evdokia Syranidou et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Substrate-Specificity of Candida rugosa Lipase and Its Industrial Application

(2019) Evelien Vanleeuw et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Enhanced Visible Light Photodegradation of Microplastic Fragments with Plasmonic Platinum/Zinc Oxide Nanorod Photocatalysts

(2019) Tajkia Syeed Tofa et al.   Catalysts

Microbial response to acid stress: mechanisms and applications

(2019) Ningzi Guan et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Are gold nanoparticles and microplastics mixtures more toxic to the marine microalgae Tetraselmis chuii than the substances individually?

(2019) Elham Davarpanah et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Environmental occurrences, fate, and impacts of microplastics

(2019) Panfeng Wu et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Particulate plastics as a vector for toxic trace-element uptake by aquatic and terrestrial organisms and human health risk

(2019) Lauren Bradney et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Membrane Processes for Microplastic Removal

(2019) Poerio et al.   MOLECULES

Selective bacterial colonization processes on polyethylene waste samples in an abandoned landfill site

(2019) Edoardo Puglisi et al.   Scientific Reports

Defense responses in earthworms (Eisenia fetida) exposed to low-density polyethylene microplastics in soils

(2019) Yuling Chen et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Size-dependent effects of polystyrene plastic particles on the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as related to soil physicochemical properties

(2019) Shin Woong Kim et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Pollutants delivered every day: Phthalates in plastic express packaging bags and their leaching potential

(2019) Zhaoni Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Microplastics modify the toxicity of glyphosate on Daphnia magna

(2019) Myriam Zocchi et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Paddle surfing for science on microplastic pollution

(2019) Elsa Camins et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Integrated approaches in microbial degradation of plastics

(2019) Shweta Jaiswal et al.   Environmental Technology & Innovation

Toxicological effects of polystyrene microplastics on earthworm (Eisenia fetida)

(2019) Xiaofeng Jiang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Degradation of plastics and plastic-degrading bacteria in cold marine habitats

(2018) Aneta K. Urbanek et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Sequestration and utilization of carbon dioxide by chemical and biological methods for biofuels and biomaterials by chemoautotrophs: Opportunities and challenges

(2018) Indu Shekhar Thakur et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Carbon dioxide capture, storage and production of biofuel and biomaterials by bacteria: A review

(2018) Manish Kumar et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Genomic and proteomic analysis of lignin degrading and polyhydroxyalkanoate accumulating β-proteobacterium Pandoraea sp. ISTKB

(2018) Madan Kumar et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems

(2018) Anderson Abel de Souza Machado et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Retention of microplastics in a major secondary wastewater treatment plant in Vancouver, Canada

(2018) Esther A. Gies et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Engineering PGPMOs through Gene Editing and Systems Biology: A Solution for Phytoremediation?

(2018) Supratim Basu et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microplastics in sewage sludge from the wastewater treatment plants in China

(2018) Xiaowei Li et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Turning microplastics into nanoplastics through digestive fragmentation by Antarctic krill

(2018) Amanda L. Dawson et al.   Nature Communications

Current state and challenges of full-scale membrane bioreactor applications: A critical review

(2018) Kang Xiao et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

New strategy for microplastic degradation: Green photocatalysis using a protein-based porous N-TiO2 semiconductor

(2018) Maria Camila Ariza-Tarazona et al.   CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL

Screening and Characterization of Novel Polyesterases from Environmental Metagenomes with High Hydrolytic Activity against Synthetic Polyesters

(2018) Mahbod Hajighasemi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Challenges associated with plastic waste disposal and allied microbial routes for its effective degradation: A comprehensive review

(2018) Rucha V. Moharir et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Quantifying the bioaccumulation of nanoplastics and PAHs in the clamworm Perinereis aibuhitensis

(2018) Xiangtao Jiang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Quantification of the combined toxic effect of polychlorinated biphenyls and nano-sized polystyrene on Daphnia magna

(2018) Wei Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Transcriptomics and Lipidomics of the Environmental Strain Rhodococcus ruber Point out Consumption Pathways and Potential Metabolic Bottlenecks for Polyethylene Degradation

(2017) Kévin Gravouil et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Degradation and metabolism of synthetic plastics and associated products by Pseudomonas sp.: capabilities and challenges

(2017) R.A. Wilkes et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Lipase from Candida antarctica (CALB) and cutinase from Humicola insolens act synergistically for PET hydrolysis to terephthalic acid

(2017) Adriano Carniel et al.   PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY

Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities

(2017) Alice A. Horton et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

How well is microlitter purified from wastewater? – A detailed study on the stepwise removal of microlitter in a tertiary level wastewater treatment plant

(2017) Julia Talvitie et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Solutions to microplastic pollution – Removal of microplastics from wastewater effluent with advanced wastewater treatment technologies

(2017) Julia Talvitie et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Systems metabolic engineering as an enabling technology in accomplishing sustainable development goals

(2017) Dongsoo Yang et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Carbon Catabolite Repression and Impranil Polyurethane Degradation in Pseudomonas protegens Strain Pf-5

(2016) Chia-Suei Hung et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Metagenomics: Probing pollutant fate in natural and engineered ecosystems

(2016) Emna Bouhajja et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

The status of industrial and municipal effluent treatment with membrane bioreactor technology

(2016) S.J. Judd   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)

(2016) Shosuke Yoshida et al.   SCIENCE

Enzymatic hydrolysis of polyethylene terephthalate films in an ultrafiltration membrane reactor

(2015) Markus Barth et al.   JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE

Selection and screening of microbial consortia for efficient and ecofriendly degradation of plastic garbage collected from urban and rural areas of Bangalore, India

(2014) Sinosh Skariyachan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Photocatalytic degradation of polypropylene/TiO2 nano-composites

(2014) Mohammad Mehdi Kamrannejad et al.   Materials Research-Ibero-american Journal of Materials

Taxis of Pseudomonas putida F1 toward Phenylacetic Acid Is Mediated by the Energy Taxis Receptor Aer2

(2013) Rita A. Luu et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

ZFN, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas-based methods for genome engineering

(2013) Thomas Gaj et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Toxic organic micro-pollutants removal mechanisms in long-term operated membrane bioreactor treating municipal solid waste leachate

(2012) Varinthorn Boonyaroj et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

The role of the copper-binding enzyme – laccase – in the biodegradation of polyethylene by the actinomycete Rhodococcus ruber

(2012) Miriam Santo et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Effectiveness of three configurations of membrane bioreactors on the removal of priority and emergent organic compounds from wastewater: comparison with conventional wastewater treatments

(2012) D. Camacho-Muñoz et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

Biodegradation of Polyester Polyurethane by Endophytic Fungi

(2011) Jonathan R. Russell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Three-dimensional Structure of Nylon Hydrolase and Mechanism of Nylon-6 Hydrolysis

(2011) Seiji Negoro et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Degradation of unpretreated and thermally pretreated polypropylene by soil consortia

(2008) Ambika Arkatkar et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION