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Interactions between microplastics, pharmaceuticals and personal care products: Implications for vector transport
Environment International2021
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Michael S. Bank,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Michael S. Bank,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Michael S. Bank,
Meththika Vithanage,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Ajit K. Sarmah,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Nanthi Bolan,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Nanthi Bolan,
Ajit K. Sarmah,
Nanthi Bolan,
Ajit K. Sarmah,
Michael S. Bank,
Michael S. Bank,
Michael S. Bank,
Meththika Vithanage,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Nanthi Bolan,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Meththika Vithanage,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Yong Sik Ok
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Michael S. Bank,
Michael S. Bank,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Michael S. Bank,
Yong Sik Ok
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Ajit K. Sarmah,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Ajit K. Sarmah,
Ajit K. Sarmah,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Michael S. Bank,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Ajit K. Sarmah,
Nanthi Bolan,
Michael S. Bank,
Meththika Vithanage,
Michael S. Bank,
Michael S. Bank,
Nanthi Bolan,
Michael S. Bank,
Michael S. Bank,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Meththika Vithanage,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Siming You,
Yong Sik Ok
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Yong Sik Ok
Meththika Vithanage,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Yong Sik Ok
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Michael S. Bank,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Yong Sik Ok
Michael S. Bank,
Michael S. Bank,
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
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Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Ajit K. Sarmah,
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Thilakshani Atugoda,
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Hasintha Wijesekara,
Meththika Vithanage,
Ajit K. Sarmah,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Michael S. Bank,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Meththika Vithanage,
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Meththika Vithanage,
Yong Sik Ok
Nanthi Bolan,
Siming You,
Yong Sik Ok
Michael S. Bank,
Michael S. Bank,
Yong Sik Ok
Meththika Vithanage,
Michael S. Bank,
Nanthi Bolan,
Siming You,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Yong Sik Ok
Meththika Vithanage,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
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Nanthi Bolan,
Siming You,
Siming You,
Michael S. Bank,
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Michael S. Bank,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Nanthi Bolan,
Meththika Vithanage,
Yong Sik Ok
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Yong Sik Ok
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Summary
This review examines how microplastics can absorb pharmaceuticals and personal care products (like medications, sunscreen, and antibacterials) onto their surfaces in the environment. Environmental factors like water acidity, salt levels, and organic matter all affect how strongly these chemicals bind to plastic surfaces. When organisms ingest microplastics carrying these absorbed chemicals, the combined exposure could pose greater health risks than either the plastics or chemicals alone.
Microplastics are well known for vector transport of hydrophobic organic contaminants, and there are growing concerns regarding their potential adverse effects on ecosystems and human health. However, recent studies focussing on hydrophilic compounds, such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), have shown that the compounds ability to be adsorbed onto plastic surfaces. The extensive use of PPCPs has led to their ubiquitous presence in the environment resulting in their cooccurrence with microplastics. The partitioning between plastics and PPCPs and their fate through vector transport are determined by various physicochemical characteristics and environmental conditions of specific matrices. Although the sorption capacities of microplastics for different PPCP compounds have been investigated extensively, these findings have not yet been synthesized and analyzed critically. The specific objectives of this review were to synthesize and critically assess the various factors that affect the adsorption of hydrophilic compounds such as PPCPs on microplastic surfaces and their fate and transport in the environment. The review also focuses on environmental factors such as pH, salinity, and dissolved organics, and properties of polymers and PPCP compounds, and the relationships with sorption dynamics and mechanisms. Furthermore, the ecotoxicological effects of PPCP-sorbed microplastics on biota and human health are also discussed.