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Evaluation of the Role of Plastic Aging on the Sorption of Pesticides and Pharmaceutical Substances on Microplastics

Springer water 2023
Mariana N. Miranda, Adrián M.T. Silva, M. Fernando R. Pereira

Summary

Researchers evaluated how plastic aging affects the sorption of pesticides and pharmaceutical compounds onto microplastics, finding that weathering processes alter the polymer surface in ways that change the particle's capacity to absorb and concentrate chemical contaminants, with implications for pollutant transport and ecotoxicological risk.

Microplastics’ sorption capability has been studied over the last decade to better understand the potential impacts that they have on the ecosystems and human health. However, the role of plastic aging, in which the polymer’s physical and chemical...

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