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Adsorption and Desorption of Triclosan on Biodegradable Polyhydroxybutyrate Microplastics
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This study examined how the widely used antimicrobial chemical triclosan adsorbs onto and desorbs from biodegradable polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) microplastics. Even biodegradable plastics can act as vectors for chemical pollutants, accumulating triclosan from water and potentially releasing it into organisms that ingest the particles.
Biodegradable plastics have been increasingly used as a solution to the problem of plastic pollution in recent years. However, there are few studies on the negative effects of biodegradable microplastics. Triclosan, a widely used disinfectant, is a highly toxic substance. In the present study, the adsorption and desorption processes of triclosan on a type of biodegradable plastics, polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), were investigated and also compared with one conventional plastic type, polyethylene. The adsorption equilibrium quantities of polyethylene and PHB were 3431.85 and 9442.27 μg/g, respectively. The adsorption rate and equilibrium adsorption capacity of triclosan on PHB are much higher than on polyethylene. Physical adsorption of triclosan on PHB and polyethylene microplastics may play a dominant role in this process. The desorption hysteresis indices are all less than zero; this indicates that triclosan is easily released from PHB and polyethylene microplastics under physiological conditions. Our results indicate that biodegradable PHB microplastics are stronger carriers for triclosan than the conventional polyethylene microplastics in the aquatic environment. Environ Toxicol Chem 2021;40:72-78. © 2020 SETAC.
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