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Interaction of Microplastics and Heavy Metals: Toxicity, Mechanisms, and Environmental Implications
Summary
Researchers reviewed the combined toxicity of microplastics and heavy metals in the environment, finding that microplastic surfaces readily adsorb metals like lead, cadmium, and copper, creating a dual contamination threat that can amplify toxic effects on organisms beyond what either pollutant causes alone.
With the wide use of plastic products in all aspects of life, more and more plastic ends up in the environment. Such plastic waste will gradually decompose, break up, and form smaller fragments through a series of physicochemical and biological processes. Among them,...