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115 years of sediment deposition in a reservoir in Central Europe: Effects of the industrial history and environmental protection on heavy metals and microplastic

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Pollution of Beach Sands of the Ob River (Western Siberia) with Microplastics and Persistent Organic Pollutants

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Tracing the horizontal transport of microplastics on rough surfaces

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Distribution of environmental microplastics in different tissues of indigenous freshwater bivalves (Unio spp.): a case study from the Sejenane River in Northern Tunisia

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Benthic foraminifera in Gulf of Mexico show temporal and spatial dynamics of microplastics

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The effects of microplastics on heavy metals bioavailability in soils: a meta-analysis

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Combined contamination of tire and road wear microplastics with heavy metals in expressway tunnels: occurrence characteristics and risk assessment

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Opening Space for Plastics—Why Spatial, Soil and Land Use Data Are Important to Understand Global Soil (Micro)Plastic Pollution

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Plastic Debris in the Stomach of the Invasive Signal Crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus from a Baltic Coastal River

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Microplastic in Water and Sediments at the Confluence of the Elbe and Mulde Rivers in Germany

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Learning from natural sediments to tackle microplastics challenges: A multidisciplinary perspective

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Mud and organic content are strongly correlated with microplastic contamination in a meandering riverbed

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Microplastics as stratigraphic tracers of post-1950 deposition in a reworked tropical estuary, Brazil

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Occurrence and distribution of plastic particles (10–25,000 μm) and microfibers in the surface water of an urban river network in Japan

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Microplastic in long-term soil monitoring: first spatial and temporal data on plastics in agricultural topsoils

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