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Environmental Sources
Marine & Wildlife
Nanoplastics
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The missing small microplastics: easily generated from weathered plastic pieces in labs but hardly detected in natural environments
Environmental Science Advances
2023
17 citations
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Fangni Du,
Huiwen Cai,
Lei Su,
Wei Wang,
Liwu Zhang,
Chengjun Sun,
Beizhan Yan,
Huahong Shi,
Huahong Shi
Summary
This paper reports that small microplastics and nanoplastics are easily generated in the laboratory from weathered plastic pieces but are rarely detected in field samples, attributing the discrepancy to the lack of suitable environmental detection methods rather than their absence in nature.
Plentiful small microplastics and nanoplastics can easily generate from weathered plastics, but few small microplastics and no nanoplatics could be detected in surrounding sediments, possibly due to a lack of suitable detection approach.