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Monitoring of polymer type and plastic additives in coating film of beer cans from 16 countries
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Researchers analyzed the plastic coating films inside and outside beer cans from 16 countries and found that epoxy resin was the dominant polymer used, along with chemical additives like DEHP and BHT at concentrations up to thousands of nanograms per gram. Environmental samples of degraded metal cans showed one to two orders of magnitude higher additive concentrations than new cans, suggesting corroded metal packaging becomes a significant source of plastic-associated chemical pollution.
Plastic debris has gained attention as anthropogenic waste in the environment, but less concerned given to metal waste despite its high abundance in aquatic environment. Metal packaging, such as can, utilizes polymeric coating films as barrier between metals and products which leads to be potential source of microplastic pollution. In this study, 27 beer cans from 16 countries for both body and lid parts as well as inside and outside layers were investigated. Despite the country's origin, epoxy resin was the major polymeric coating used in all beer cans for lid (inside and outside) and body (inside). Whereas poly(1,2-butanediol isophthalate) was frequently used for outside layer of can body. DEHP and BHT were detected in almost all samples with the highest concentration of 5300 ng/g and 520 ng/g. Despite its lower detection frequency, DOA was detected as high as 9600 ng/g in Belgian beer can. There was no apparent relationship present between the home countries of beer cans and amount of additives used. Despite of being broken down, additives concentration in one environmental sample was found to be one to two orders of magnitude higher compared to the new can. This result proved that adsorption of chemical additives took place in the environment and degraded metal debris may become source of microplastic with higher risk of additives pollution in the environment.
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