Nanoplastics released from daily used silicone and latex products during mechanical breakdown
(2023) In PLoS ONE 18(9).- Abstract
Waste of polymer products, especially plastics, in nature has become a problem that caught the awareness of the general public during the last decade. The macro- and micro polymers in nature will be broken down by naturally occurring events such as mechanical wear and ultra-violet (UV) radiation which will result in the generation of polymeric particles in the nano-size range. We have recently shown that polystyrene and high-density polyethylene macroplastic can be broken down into nano-sized particles by applying mechanical force from an immersion blender. In this article, we show that particles in the nano-size range are released from silicone and latex pacifiers after the same treatment. Additionally, boiling the pacifiers prior to... (More)
Waste of polymer products, especially plastics, in nature has become a problem that caught the awareness of the general public during the last decade. The macro- and micro polymers in nature will be broken down by naturally occurring events such as mechanical wear and ultra-violet (UV) radiation which will result in the generation of polymeric particles in the nano-size range. We have recently shown that polystyrene and high-density polyethylene macroplastic can be broken down into nano-sized particles by applying mechanical force from an immersion blender. In this article, we show that particles in the nano-size range are released from silicone and latex pacifiers after the same treatment. Additionally, boiling the pacifiers prior to the mechanical breakdown process results in an increased number of particles released from the silicone but not the latex pacifier. Particles from the latex pacifier are acutely toxic to the freshwater filter feeding zooplankter Daphnia magna.
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- author
- Ekvall, Mikael T. LU ; Gimskog, Isabella LU ; Kelpsiene, Egle LU ; Mellring, Alice ; Månsson, Alma ; Lundqvist, Martin LU and Cedervall, Tommy LU
- organization
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- Division aquatic ecology
- LU Profile Area: Light and Materials
- LTH Profile Area: Nanoscience and Semiconductor Technology
- LTH Profile Area: Aerosols
- CAnMove - Centre for Animal Movement Research (research group)
- Aquatic Ecology (research group)
- NanoLund: Centre for Nanoscience
- Biochemistry and Structural Biology
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- PLoS ONE
- volume
- 18
- issue
- 9
- article number
- e0289377
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85171240912
- pmid:37703259
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0289377
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: Copyright: © 2023 Ekvall et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- e9768933-b998-4eb1-b726-b618c3a3edf9
- date added to LUP
- 2023-09-25 11:46:22
- date last changed
- 2024-11-30 01:24:20
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