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Contaminant Release from Aged Microplastic
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Aged microplastics release a range of adsorbed contaminants, including heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants, as they weather and degrade in the environment. This contaminant release mechanism makes aged microplastics particularly hazardous vectors for chemical exposure in both wildlife and humans.
Microplastics (MPs) have become one of the most pervasive emerging pollutants in the environment because of their wide occurrence and high sorption ability for contaminants. Sorption and desorption by microplastics may play important roles in the fate of contaminants...
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