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Handicrafts made with plant resources are part of popular culture worldwide, representing an opportunity for income and subsistence generation. The objective was to map scientific publications on the use of botanical species in Brazilian handicrafts, tracing the panorama on the thematic area in the period from 2011 to 2022. A bibliometric review was adopted, whose data were obtained from the CAPES Journal Portal, Web of Science and Scopus. They were registered with the terms “Handicraft” AND “Plants”; “Handicraft” AND “Plants” AND “Ethnobotany”; “Handicraft” AND “Plants” AND “Ethnobotany” AND “Brazil” 42 scientific publications that, after the inclusion/exclusion criteria, resulted in 18 scientific papers. In the period 2011-2022, there was little variation in the number of publications per year. The journals Economic Botany (33.33%) and Acta Botanica Brasilica (16.66%) had the highest number of publications. Eighty-seven species distributed in 26 families were recorded, of which Fabaceae (25.28%), Cyperaceae (14.95%) and Arecaceae (12.64%) were the most representative. The main target audiences were traditional artisans (50%), indigenous people (33.32%) and handicraft associations (5.56%). The Brazilian regions with significant contribution were the North (44.44%) and Northeast (27.78%). The common focus of the studies was the socioeconomic importance of handicrafts as an activity that maintains traditions and generates employment and income. It is concluded that the Brazilian flora has a strong potential for artisanal use, enabling the diversification of artifacts, while reducing pressures on restricted groups of plants. The need for studies involving the conservation and strengthening of this activity from a sustainable perspective is reaffirmed.

The world surrounded by plastics generates a lot of uncertainty and the first victims are sea animals, plastic in contact with the sun is able to disintegrate and generate toxins that are harmful to health. It is for this reason that this research in bibliographic review allows us to know the different solutions to counteract microplastics through the analysis of the Scopus database and the VOSviewer tool that allows us to analyze the data, considering the essential characteristics that are plants, animals, bacteria, algae and technologies that allow the disintegration, elimination and purification of microplastics, graphs and tables were obtained which allow us to recognize the analyzed data, the countries that carry out these investigations and the bibliometric maps worldwide. The results allow us to understand that the existence of microplastics generates many negative consequences for planet earth, however, there are different solutions which we can use and apply to counteract these microplastics, also considering that countries like Peru do not find published scientific research relevant to this matter. The purpose of this research is to allow us to make better decisions and not lose heart in the face of microplastics since it can be fought with the different solutions that we find on planet earth, technology and the other objective is to motivate readers to take action in the issue and allow generating change in the use of plastics.