Degradation of Polymer Materials in the Environment and Its Impact on the Health of Experimental Animals: A Review

Polymers, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 16(19), С. 2807 - 2807

Опубликована: Окт. 3, 2024

The extensive use of polymeric materials has resulted in significant environmental pollution, prompting the need for a deeper understanding their degradation processes and impacts. This review provides comprehensive analysis environment impact on health experimental animals. It identifies common polymers, delineates pathways, describes resulting products under different conditions. covers physical, chemical, biological mechanisms, highlighting complex interplay factors influencing these processes. Furthermore, it examines implications products, using animals as proxies assessing potential risks to human health. By synthesizing current research, focuses studies related small organisms (primarily rodents invertebrates, supplemented by fish mollusks) explore effects polymer living underscores urgency developing implementing effective waste management strategies. These strategies are crucial mitigating adverse impacts degradation, thus promoting more sustainable interaction between activities natural environment.

Язык: Английский

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Innovations and development of sustainable personal protective equipment: a path to a greener future

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 13(1)

Опубликована: Июнь 18, 2024

Abstract The unprecedented surge in the demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) worldwide during covid pandemic resulted a significant increase PPE consumption and subsequent waste generation. Despite importance of PPE, its widespread usage disposal have sparked worries about environmental impact long-term sustainability. increasing awareness challenges, resource scarcity, urgent need to mitigate climate change necessitates paradigm shift product design, manufacturing process, management PPE. To address these challenges sustainable future, development degradable polymers natural fibers offers promising alternative traditional plastics. Additionally, recycling upcycling methods can convert into valuable alternate products or energy sources, thereby reducing their impact. Better systems, comprehensive policy frameworks, international collaborations are essential effective promotion practices. collaborative efforts across governments, manufacturers, research institutions, authorities crucial transitioning more industry circular economy, ultimately benefiting both environment society.

Язык: Английский

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On the role of bacterial gut microbiota from supralittoral amphipod Talitrus saltator (Montagu, 1808) in bioplastic degradation

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 972, С. 179109 - 179109

Опубликована: Март 13, 2025

Despite the promise of a reduced environmental impact, bioplastics are subjected to dispersion and accumulation similarly traditional plastics, especially in marine coastal environments. The impact is attracting increasing attention due growing market demand. ability supralittoral amphipod Talitrus saltator ingest survive on pristine starch-based bioplastic has already been assessed. However, involvement gut microbiota this key species making dietary supplement, remains unknown. In study, we investigated modification T. following ingestion effect change their chemical composition. Groups adult amphipods were fed with: 1 - two different kinds bioplastic; 2 50 %/50 % chitosan-starch mixture; 3 paper dry-fish-food. Freshly collected, unfed individuals used as control group. Faecal pellets from collected characterized using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy. DNA was extracted samples for metagenomic analysis. Spectroscopic investigation suggested partial digestion polysaccharide components experimental polymeric materials. analysis revealed that feeding induced sandhopper's microbial communities, shifting abundance specific genera present gut, towards bacterial associated with plastic/bioplastic degradation, groups bioplastics. Overall, our results highlight saltator's modification, providing new insights into potential role consortia sandhoppers management.

Язык: Английский

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Biodegradation and bioaugmentation of the co-contamination of chloramphenicol and microplastics by Exiguobacterium sp. CAP4 isolated from a contaminated plastisphere

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 491, С. 137973 - 137973

Опубликована: Март 19, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Microplastics in the Environment: A Review Linking Pathways to Sustainable Separation Techniques

Separations, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12(4), С. 82 - 82

Опубликована: Март 30, 2025

Since the mid-20th century, quantity of microplastics (MPs) has increased significantly, becoming a persistent environmental pollutant widely distributed in global water bodies, soils, and atmosphere. While plastic materials have brought significant convenience to daily life, MPs resulting from their degradation pose increasing threats ecosystems human health. This comprehensive review examines sources, migration pathways, ecological impacts MPs, critically evaluates current separation techniques physical, chemical, biological perspectives. In particular, numerical simulations hydrocyclone technique reveal its unique flow characteristics, including turbulent velocity gradients axial pressure differences, with efficiency up 93%. offers advantages such as high efficiency, low energy consumption, friendliness. response growing microplastic pollution issue, this emphasizes that development future should prioritize sustainability, compatibility. Continued research field will provide theoretical support for optimizing control technologies contribute achieving protection sustainable goals.

Язык: Английский

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Biodegradation of polystyrene by Spodoptera litura and Spodoptera frugiperda larvae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): Insights into the frass characterization and responses of gut microbiomes

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 492, С. 138178 - 138178

Опубликована: Апрель 6, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Innovative biomaterials for food packaging: Unlocking the potential of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolymers

Biomaterials Advances, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 163, С. 213929 - 213929

Опубликована: Июнь 19, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Polyhydroxybutyrate Plastics Show Rapid Disintegration and More Straightforward Biogeochemical Impacts than Polyethylene under Marine Biofragmentation

Environmental Science & Technology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 58(32), С. 14496 - 14505

Опубликована: Июль 24, 2024

Although massive studies have investigated the spatiotemporally occurring marine plastisphere, a new microbial ecosystem colonizing surfaces of plastics, resulting biofragmentation process and impacts plastics on biogeochemical cycles remain largely unknown. Here, we leverage synchrotron-based Fourier transform infrared spectromicroscopy (FTIR mapping) metagenomic sequencing to explore independent microcosms amended with petroleum-based polyethylene (PE) biobased polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) plastic films. FTIR mapping results demonstrate unequal fragmentation scenarios by which PE rarely releases oxidized fragments while PHB disintegrates quickly, gradually forming composed extracellular polymeric substances resembling Metagenomic analysis shows critical role hydrocarbonoclastic lineages in biodegradation two fatty acid degradation pathway, where host different trajectories between plastisphere (dominated

Язык: Английский

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Transport of microplastic-antibiotic co-contaminants in tidal zones

Environmental Pollution, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 126072 - 126072

Опубликована: Март 1, 2025

Microplastics (MPs) and antibiotics (ATs) are emerging contaminants with recognized negative effects on marine ecosystems. MPs can adsorb transport ATs, posing combined toxic to organisms. Despite growing concerns, research remains limited the MP-AT co-contaminants in tidal zones, which home numerous aquatic species represent a particularly susceptible ecosystem. This study used polyethylene (PE) tetracycline (TC) investigate influence under various conditions, including sediment sizes, cycles, MP of zones using cycle simulation system, was designed replicate dynamics provide insights into movement behavior contaminants. It observed that sediments exist three distinct states. Smaller (State 1) pass through sand pores widely distributed upper layers, whereas larger 2) concentrate layers 1-5 due size limitations. Agglomerated 3), unable pores, accumulate at bottom. Tidal cycles enhance co-contaminant retention, while (125-212 μm) limitedly affects their distribution. played crucial role, settling smaller remaining more dispersed. These findings emphasize importance affecting contaminant environments. Results from this will contribute development models help predict long-term environmental impact co-contaminants.

Язык: Английский

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PLASTICS IN THE COLD MARINE ENVIRONMENT: A REVIEW OF THE POTENTIAL FOR MICROBIAL BIODEGRADATION

Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1326 - 1335

Опубликована: Июль 31, 2024

Background: Plastics are widely used due to their durability, flexibility, and transparency, leading extensive industrial applications. However, the accumulation of plastics in various ecosystems has created significant environmental challenges. Objective: This review aims evaluate studies conducted over past ten years on biodegradation by microorganisms from cold marine environments. Methods: Descriptors Used: "plastic AND oceans," (psychrophilic OR psychrophile)," "PETAse (fungi bacteria)," "extremophiles plastic biodegradation." Databases Searched: Scopus, PubMed, Google Scholar. Number Papers Located: 11,481. PubMed: 1.79% Scholar: 1.84% Scopus: 0.26% Results: The genera most frequently mentioned as potential degraders habitats were Streptomyces, Corynebacterium, Arthrobacter, Micrococcus, Pseudomonas, Rhodococcus. findings indicate a gap research degradation Conclusion: There is need for further explore enhance activity cold-adapted microbial enzymes effective ecosystems. presents opportunities additional this emerging field.

Язык: Английский

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