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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Microbes and Microplastics Interactions in Fresh Water Ecosystems: Fate and Implications for Environmental Health.- Chapter 2: Release of Microplastics by Terrestrial Sources into Freshwater Environments.- Chapter 3. Understanding various pathways of microplastic pollution in freshwater systems.- Chapter 4: Distribution pattern of microplastics in aquatic sources.- Chapter 5. Tracing the Path: Fate and Transport of Microplastics from Aquatic Systems to Soils.- Chapter 6. Techniques for sampling, detection, and characterization of microplastics in water, sediment, and tissue samples.- Chapter 7. Advances in microplastics research in freshwater ecosystems: An overview of newly developed separation and identification methods.- Chapter 8. Impact of Microplastics on Human Health.- Chapter 9. Microplastics and Aquatic Limnology: Conception of Biogeochemical Processes.- Chapter 10. Microplastics Occurrence in Sediments and Associated Ecological Risk: A Study of Saurashtra Coastline, Gujarat, India.- Chapter 11. From Cradle to Contamination: The Lifecycle of Plastics with an Emphasis on Household Waste and Remediation via Biochar.- Chapter 12. Microplastic Pollution: Review of Degradation, Detection, and Treatment Technologies.- Chapter 13. Microplastic Remediation in Aquatic Environment.