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Interaction Between Microplastics and Pollutants
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Researchers examined how microplastics interact with environmental pollutants, finding that their accumulation causes physical harm including suffocation and energy depletion in aquatic organisms, while their surfaces act as vectors that concentrate and transport co-contaminants through ecosystems in various forms including films and fragments.
The accumulation and entanglement of microplastics can cause suffocation [1], and the microplastics exposure to aquatic organisms also leads to energy depletion, fecundity, and starvation [2]. Moreover, microplastics exist in various environments as films, fragments,...
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