Solving Familiar Problems: Leveraging Environmental Testing Methods for Nanomaterials to Evaluate Microplastics and Nanoplastics

Summary

This paper argues that existing environmental testing frameworks developed for nanomaterials can be adapted to evaluate the risks of microplastics and nanoplastics, rather than building entirely new regulatory approaches from scratch. The authors outline how standard ecotoxicological methods could be leveraged to more efficiently characterize plastic particle hazards.