eng Science and Education Publishing Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences 2328-3920 2020-10-14 8 6 472 477 10.12691/aees-8-6-20 AEES20208620 article Juhi Firdous 1 Yatindra Kumar Mathur 2 Mubashir Jeelani 2 Seema Azmat 3 Adnan Aziz 4 Department of Advanced Sciences, National Institute of Medical Sciences, Rajasthan, Jaipur, 303121 Department of Environmental Sciences, AAAM Bemina Degree College, Srinagar 190018 Department of Environmental engineering, Chandigarh University, Chandigarh, India, 140413 Department of Biochemistry, S P College, Srinagar, India, 190001 Microplastic pollution is a new emerging problem to our generation, with lack of proper disposal and tones of production. Every year tones of plastic is disposed in the water bodies and which gets weathered and results in the production of microplastics, which when ingested by aquatic organisms leads to their mortality and many serious issues. The microplastics are good adsorbents and absorb all the chemical and metals in the water causing mortality in fishes. They also act as pathogen carriers and lead to the water born diseases. Our review study finds that there is a need to evaluate the effects on the fresh water organisms as the literature on fresh water is scarce. http://pubs.sciepub.com/aees/8/6/20/aees-8-6-20.pdf Microplastic pollution micro plastics India first report lakes bioaccumulation