Current Progress on Marine Microplastics Pollution Research: A Review on Pollution Occurrence, Detection, and Environmental Effects

Recently, microplastics pollution has attracted much attention in the environmental field, as researchers have found traces of both marine and terrestrial ecological environments. Here, we reviewed discussed current progress on environment from three main aspects including their identification qualification methods, source distribution, fate toxicity a ecosystem. Microplastics originate variety sources distribute broadly all around world, but quantitative information is still lacking. Up to now, there been no adequate standard methods identify quantify various types microplastics, which need be developed unified. The particularly important they may transferred or accumulated biological chain. Meanwhile, high adsorption capacity pollutants, basic research further study joint environment. Therefore, findings are expected fill knowledge gaps promote development relative regulations.