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Occurrences, sources, fate and impacts of plastic on aquatic organisms and human health in global perspectives: What Bangladesh can do in future?

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Bangladesh is not an exception to the growing global environmental problem of plastic pollution. Plastics have been deemed a blessing for today's world thanks to their inexpensive production costs, low weight, toughness, and flexibility, but poor biodegradability and massive misuse of plastics are to blame for widespread contamination of the environmental components. Plastic as well as microplastic pollution and its adverse consequences have attracted significant investigative attention all over the world. Plastic pollution is a rising concern in Bangladesh, but scientific studies, data, and related information are very scarce in numerous areas of the plastic pollution problem. The current study examined the effects of plastic and microplastic pollution on the environment and human health, and it examined Bangladesh's existing knowledge of plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems in light of the rapidly expanding international research in this field. We also made an effort to investigate the current shortcomings in Bangladesh's assessment of plastic pollution. This study proposed several management approaches to the persistent plastic pollution problem by analyzing studies from industrialized and emerging countries. Finally, this work pushed investigators to investigate Bangladesh's plastic contamination thoroughly and develop guidelines and policies to address the issue.

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Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) for patronizing us to complete this study (Grant number: PIU-BARC, NATP-2, PBRG-156). We also would like to thank the Institute of Bangabandhu War of Liberation Bangladesh Studies (IBLBS), National University, Bangladesh, for their resource materials and to the Sustainable Environmental and Agricultural Research Alliance (SEARA) for their technical support. The authors also express their gratitude to the Chemistry Division, Atomic Energy Centre, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Bangladesh, for their data support.

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  1. Md. Kamrul Haque and Minhaz Uddin are contributed equally to this work.

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Bangabandhu War of Liberation Bangladesh Studies, National University, Dhaka, 1209, Bangladesh

    Md. Kamrul Haque

  2. Department of Environmental Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh

    Minhaz Uddin

  3. Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, New Territories, 999077, Hong Kong

    Tapos Kormoker & Yiu Fai Tsang

  4. Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Science, University of London, Birkbeck, UK

    Tareq Ahmed

  5. Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, 3100, Bangladesh

    Md. Rahat Uz Zaman

  6. Chemistry Division, Atomic Energy Centre, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Shahbag, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

    M. Safiur Rahman

  7. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, 6205, Bangladesh

    Md. Ashekur Rahman & Md. Yeamin Hossain

  8. Department of Horticulture, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh

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MKH, MU, and TK contributed to conceptualization, methodology, data curation, visualization, writing—original draft, and writing—reviewing and editing. TA and MRUZ performed revision—original draft. MSR performed writing—reviewing and editing. MAR and MMR performed writing—reviewing and editing. MYH and YFT contributed to supervision, resources, and writing—reviewing and editing.

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Haque, M.K., Uddin, M., Kormoker, T. et al. Occurrences, sources, fate and impacts of plastic on aquatic organisms and human health in global perspectives: What Bangladesh can do in future?. Environ Geochem Health 45, 5531–5556 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-023-01646-0

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