Microplastic Pollution in Bangladesh: A Structured Review of Sources, Impacts, and Policy Responses

Swomik Saha Arko

International Journal of Scientific Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2026, vol. 3, issue 4, 01-17

Abstract: As local secretion spreads, plastic pollution has thus come into full view percentage Geometric Scale invisible pressure from Marine Composite and Mixture Pollution into a major multi-layer pollution including marine, estuarine, river water resources freshwater catchments down to terrains of heavy industry where it adds injury to situation at some location with further detriment across national frontiers (1,4,5,15,17). The original source of primary plastics is industry granules and cosmetics, as well the latter can come from large pieces if sea level rises [10–12,47]; incoming materials derived from indoor/outdoor use of industrial waste plastics serve to connect eating-water supply chains with violence-sinks in rivers and coastal waters separately [6,23]. On that basis, global synthesis figures suggest there could be about 5.25 trillion pieces floating on Earth's oceans (≈269 kt); each year rivers discharge up to 1.15–2.41 Mt of plastic into fresh off-coast backwaters away from landfills and cities alone : Chinese banks underwrite nearly one-third of this flow without any residue (4,14,15,17). Laboratory and field evidence shows plastic is eaten at all levels of the food chain, feeding transfer of concomitant contaminants except those in larval fish may require some resurrection and movement before acceptance [39,47–49,55,57–59,54,60–62]. Human exposure comes primarily through food and possibly by inhaling it as well [50,51]. In Bangladesh, where rapid urbanisation together with textile fibre-related emissions exacerbates microplastic burdens carried by rivers (e.g., Buriganga, Turag, Jamuna), lakes and coastal waters as well the Sundarbans. Known polymers include PET, PP, PE PS HDPE and most prevail in biota or sediment as fibres [97–105]. Simple policy responses of targeted law enforcement against one-use plastics and microspheres, together with suggestions for a circular-economy fix to today's waste management problems, enable society as well as poli'tics themselves to avoid (or at least lessen) some- thing catastrophic [70–75]. This review integrates global understanding with special Braggadocio facts to help policy makers understand the nature, source, time course and environmental impact of micro whites in Bangladesh [1,4–6,10–12,14–17,20–23,28,33–38,39,47–49,50,55,57–59,60–62,70–75,97–105].

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Date: 2026
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