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Adsorption behavior of triclosan on microplastics and their combined acute toxicity to D. magna
Summary
Researchers studied how the antibacterial chemical triclosan attaches to different types of microplastics in water and tested their combined toxicity on water fleas. They found that triclosan readily adsorbed onto polystyrene, polyethylene, and polypropylene microplastics, with the process influenced by water chemistry factors like pH and salt content. When water fleas were exposed to microplastics carrying triclosan, the combined toxicity was greater than from either contaminant alone.
Microplastics (MP) have been recently identified as emerging water contaminants in worldwide. Owing to its physicochemical properties, MP have been considered as a vector of other micropollutants and may affect their fate and ecological toxicity in the water environment. In this study, triclosan (TCS), which is a widely-used bactericide, and three frequently found types of MP (PS-MP, PE-MP, and PP-MP) were investigated. The adsorption behavior of TCS on MP was investigated by the effect of reaction time, initial concentration of TCS, and other water chemistry factors. Elovich model and Temkin model are the most fitted well with kinetics and adsorption isotherms, respectively. The maximum TCS adsorption capacities were calculated for PS-MP (9.36 mg/g), PP-MP (8.23 mg/g), and PE-MP (6.47 mg/g). PS-MP had higher affinity to TCS owing to hydrophobic and π-π interaction. The TCS adsorption on PS-MP was inhibited by decreasing concentrations of cations, and increasing concentration of anion, pH, and NOM concentration. At pH 10, only 0.22 mg/g of adsorption capacity was obtained because of the isoelectric point (3.75) of PS-MP and pKa (7.9) of TCS. And almost no TCS adsorption occurred at NOM concentration of 11.8 mg/L. Only PS-MP had no acute toxic effect on D. magna, whereas TCS showed acute toxicity (EC of TCS = 0.36 ± 0.4 mg/L). Although survival rate increased when TCS with PS-MP due to lower the TCS concentration in solution via adsorption, PS-MP was observed in intestine and body surface of D. magna. Our findings can contribute to understanding the combined potential effects of MP fragment and TCS to aquatic biota.
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