（英文污水文献）1-s2.0-S0025326X19300451-main

1-s2.0-S0025326X19300451-mainContentslistsavailableatScienceDirectMarinePollutionBulletinjournalhomepage:www.elsevier.com/locate/marpolbulReviewMarinemicrofiberpollution:AreviewonpresentstatusandfuturechallengesSunandaMishra,ChandicharanRath,AlokPrasadDas⁎DepartmentofLifeScience,RamaDeviWomen'sUniversity,Bhubaneswar,Odisha,IndiaARTICLEINFOKeywords:MicrofibersGenerationPollutionHealthhazardsTreatmentABSTRACTMicrofibersareemergingpollutantswithwidespreaddistributionintheenvironmentandhaveadverseecolo-gicalimpacts.Approximately2milliontonnesofmicrofibersarereleasedintotheoceaneveryyearfromvarioussources,ofwhich700,000microfleecesarereleasedfromeachgarmentthroughdomesticlaundry.Microfibersarethemajormarinepollutantthroughouttheworldestimating13milliontonnesofcoastalsyntheticfabricwasteenteringtheoceaneachyear,outofwhich2.5milliontonnesenterthroughadjoiningrivers.Itisan-ticipatedthat,todate,1.5milliontrillionofmicrofibersarepresentintheocean.Microfibersaremistakenlyingestedbymarineanimalsan