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Agro-(Bio)Microplastics: Extraction, Identification, and Quantification Methodologies
Summary
This paper examines methods for extracting, identifying, and quantifying microplastics from biodegradable bioplastics used in agriculture, which fragment into particles that are difficult to distinguish from conventional microplastics. Understanding whether bioplastics truly degrade safely is vital, as agricultural microplastic contamination of soil directly affects food crops consumed by humans.
The process of disintegration of biodegradable bioplastics is often studied using the residual materials, which can be collected by the naked eye and examined through changes in crystallinity, functional groups, thermal properties, and molecular weight. However,...