Hampton, Leah M. Thornton
Wyler, Dana Briggs
Almroth, Bethanie Carney
Coffin, Scott
Cowger, Win
Doyle, Darragh
Hataley, Eden K.
Hutton, Sara J.
Mair, Magdalena M.
Miller, Ezra L.
Monclús, Laura
Sharpe, Emma E.
Samreen, Siddiqui
Ahmed, Kazi Towsif
Allamby, Quinn P. V.
Vital, Ana L. Antonio
Asnicar, Davide
Bare, Jennifer L.
Barrick, Andrew
Berreman, Katherine
Bertrand, Lidwina
Boone, Virginia
Bour, Agathe
Brehm, Julian
Carrasco-Navarro, Victor
Cook, Travis
Covernton, Garth A.
Cubanski, Patricia
Da Silva, Pedro M. C.
de Souza Leite, Luan
Gene, Sam M.
Hermabessiere, Ludovic
Hooge, Asta
Iwasaki, Yuichi
Klasios, Natasha
Knauss, Christine M.
Kardgar, Azora König
Kropf, Philipp
Kudu, Isaac B.
Kukkola, Anna
Laforsch, Christian
Kennedy, Stephanie B.
Leusch, Frederic D. L.
Li, Lucy Wei
Lu, Hsuan-Cheng
Mahan, Judd
Saif, Uddin Md
Mondellini, Simona
Norman, John P.
Pandelides, Zacharias
Petersson, Tove
Philibert, Danielle A.
Kvist, Elina
Ramsperger, Anja F. R. M.
Rigutto, Gabrielle
Ritschar, Sven
Sandgaard, Monica H.
Schmitt, Jona
Schott, Matthias
Schwarzer, Michael
Seabrook, Katryna J.
Seifried, Teresa M.
Sepahi, Rohan
Siña, Mariella
Testoff, Alex N.
Vercauteren, Maaike
Wardlaw, Colleen M.
Yeh, Andrew
Zajac-Fay, Rachel
Mehinto, Alvine C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS 2018–01201)
Will J. Reid Foundation
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (project number 391977956 – SFB 1357)
Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada Plastics Science for a Cleaner Future Program
CONICET (PIBAA 2022-2023)
FONCyT agency (PICT 2019-2892)
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and Innovation programs PlasticsFatE (965367)
PAPILLONS (101000210)
LimnoPlast, under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant (860720)
Finnish Cultural Foundation (00200215)
University of Eastern Finland
São Paulo Research Foundation (Proc. FAPESP 2023/16350-2; 2022/12104-4)
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant (860720)
Austrian Science Fund (J 4752-N)
BOF-research grant (BOF_PDO_01P08121)
Article History
Received: 3 June 2025
Accepted: 20 August 2025
First Online: 26 September 2025
Declarations
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: The authors LMTH, DBW, BCA, SC, WC, DD, EKH, MMM, ELM, LM, EES, SS, KTA, QPVA, ALAV, DA, JLB, AB, KB, LB, VB, AB, JB, VC, TC, GC, PC, PMCDS, LDSL, SMG, LH, AH, YI, NK, CMK, AKK, PK, IBK, AK, CL, SBK, FDLL, LWL, HL, JM, UMS, SM, ZP, TP, DAP, EK, AFRMR, GR, SR, MHS, JS, MScho, MSchw, KS, TMS, RS, MS, ANT, MV, CMW, AY, RZF, and ACM declare having no known competing financial interests or professional relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. The following authors declare financial interests/professional relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests:• SJH currently works for an environmental consulting firm that provides technical support related to microplastics to private and public stakeholders. The present work was funded internally as R&D and conducted independently. The opinions herein do not necessarily reflect those of any affiliated organizations.• JPN currently works for a trade association that provides technical support related to microplastics to private stakeholders. The present work was conducted independently and on personal time. The opinions herein do not necessarily reflect those of any affiliated organizations.