Manuscript Topics

In the last decade, microplastic contamination in the environment has significantly increased. The main sources of microplastics in environment are the improper plastic waste disposal and anthropogenic activities, meaning that industrial and agricultural activities can seriously release microplastics into the environment.

Degradation processes progressively reduce plastic pieces into microplastics, which spread into the environment and enter the food chain. For example, vertebrate and invertebrate marine organisms are seriously affected by microplastic contamination. Accumulation in their tissues has been confirmed by scientific community but, they effects are not fully investigated yet. Recently, the exposure of humans to microplastics is of a great concern. The most important way by which microplastics enter the human body is the food product. For some of them, microplastic contamination has been quite investigated, even though the absence of standardized methods does not allow to obtain comparable and unique results. To better understand the fate and toxicity of microplastics, in fact, methodologies should be improved and standardized.

This special issue aims to improve the knowledges about microplastic presence in both marine and terrestrial environments, meaning that the identification of all potential sources can represent the first way to manage and reduce their release. Further, the study of the fate and toxicity of microplastics in the environment and living organisms can bring to engaging and useful solutions to protect both the environment itself and all organisms.

The following topics can be considered as
• Microplastic sources in the terrestrial environment
• Microplastic sources in the marine environment
• Fate and toxicity of microplastics in the marine environment
• Fate and toxicity of microplastics in the terrestrial environment
• Exposure of terrestrial and marine organisms to microplastics
• Human activities and microplastic release into the environments
• Impact of agricultural and industrial activity on the production and release of microplastics
Any other research papers outside of these research topics which have great concern for microplastics knowledges can be acceptable in a broader sense.

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