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The waste plastic debris from various sources are continuously added to the ocean and these materials are non-biodegradable and persist within the marine environment for even thousands of years and are transported from one place to another place within the sea causing harm to marine fishes, birds, mammals and other huge varieties of marine species. The ocean is considered as the hotspots of the huge amount of plastic materials ejected after human use and these plastic materials either through entanglement or ingestion both in macro and microplastic forms and cause contamination in the marine world. These waste microplastic materials undergo bioaccumulation in the food web and food chains in the marine environment and cause of threat to aquatic life. Microplastic is especially hazardous to marine algae and small marine organisms of primary producers therefore affect the whole marine environment. Plastic pollution is now an important visible global issue and it not only impacts global ecological conditions, but also affects the social and economic condition throughout the world.
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Biswal, T. (2021). Hazards of Microplastic in Oceanic Environment: An Assessment. In: Acharya, S.K., Mishra, D.P. (eds) Current Advances in Mechanical Engineering . Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4795-3_30
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