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Risk for the release of an enormous amount of nanoplastics and microplastics from partially biodegradable polymer blends
Green Chemistry
2022
22 citations
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Xin‐Feng Wei,
Mikael S. Hedenqvist,
Luyao Zhao,
Andreas Barth,
Haiyan Yin
Summary
Researchers found that partially biodegradable polymer blends pose a significant risk of releasing non-biodegradable components as microplastics and nanoplastics into the environment during the biodegradation of the biodegradable fraction.
Non-biodegradable polymers are released as microplastics into the environments during the biodegradation of partially biodegradable polymer blends.