Composting treatment increases the risk of microplastics pollution in process and compost products

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 486, С. 137084 - 137084

Опубликована: Янв. 5, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Exploring Innovative Approaches for the Analysis of Micro- and Nanoplastics: Breakthroughs in (Bio)Sensing Techniques

Biosensors, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 15(1), С. 44 - 44

Опубликована: Янв. 13, 2025

Plastic pollution, particularly from microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs), has become a critical environmental health concern due to their widespread distribution, persistence, potential toxicity. MPs NPs originate primary sources, such as cosmetic microspheres or synthetic fibers, secondary fragmentation of larger plastics through degradation. These particles, typically less than 5 mm, are found globally, deep seabeds human tissues, known adsorb release harmful pollutants, exacerbating ecological risks. Effective detection quantification essential for understanding mitigating impacts. Current analytical methods include physical chemical techniques. Physical methods, optical electron microscopy, provide morphological details but often lack specificity time-intensive. Chemical analyses, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) Raman spectroscopy, offer molecular face challenges with smaller particle sizes complex matrices. Thermal including pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS), compositional insights destructive limited in analysis. Emerging (bio)sensing technologies show promise addressing these challenges. Electrochemical biosensors cost-effective, portable, sensitive platforms, leveraging principles voltammetry impedance detect adsorbed pollutants. Plasmonic techniques, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) surface-enhanced spectroscopy (SERS), high sensitivity nanostructure-enhanced detection. Fluorescent utilizing microbial enzymatic elements enable the real-time monitoring plastic degradation products, terephthalic acid polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Advancements innovative approaches pave way more accurate, scalable, environmentally compatible solutions, contributing improved remediation strategies. This review highlights advanced section on prospects that address could lead significant advancements monitoring, highlighting necessity testing new sensing developments under real conditions (composition/matrix samples), which overlooked, well study peptides novel recognition element microplastic sensing.

Язык: Английский

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Revealing the adsorption kinetics of microplastics towards hydrophobic antibiotic: New insights into the microplastics aging behavior and aquatic environmental factors

Journal of environmental chemical engineering, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13(2), С. 115444 - 115444

Опубликована: Янв. 13, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Effect of microplastics on carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycle in farmland soil: A meta-analysis

Environmental Pollution, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 125871 - 125871

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Microplastics in aquaculture environments: Current occurrence, adverse effects, ecological risk, and nature-based mitigation solutions

Marine Pollution Bulletin, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 209, С. 117168 - 117168

Опубликована: Окт. 24, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Synthesis, Modification, and Applications of Poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC)

Polymer-Plastics Technology and Materials, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 40

Опубликована: Ноя. 1, 2024

One of the polymers with biggest production volume is poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) considering their versatility, durability, lightweight, as well low cost production, plastics have recently become an essential part everyone's daily life. However, increased and usage poses significant environmental problems because incomplete utilization, a lengthy biodegradation period, detrimental effects on living things. This study examines latest findings in PVC research, including its properties, polymerization, modification, recycling, diverse applications. It has been proposed that during along application both inorganic organic thermal stabilizers, can mitigate some basic limiting characteristics PVC. chemistry extended by vast continuous study, mainly chemical transformations this polymeric material. describes modification using different materials active modifying agent. The latter included substitutions, modifications, nucleophilic radicals, removal or dehydrochlorination, grafting polymerizations. PVC's consequences are examined, overview functionalization provided article, discussion main reactivity trends lens recycling.

Язык: Английский

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Prevalent inaccuracies and data biases encountered in microplastic research

Journal of environmental chemical engineering, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 115446 - 115446

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Phytotoxic Effects of Polystyrene Microplastics on Growth Morphology, Photosynthesis, Gaseous Exchange and Oxidative Stress of Wheat Vary with Concentration and Shape

Toxics, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13(1), С. 57 - 57

Опубликована: Янв. 15, 2025

Microplastics pose a serious ecological threat to agricultural soils, as they are very persistent in nature. can enter the soil system different ways and present shapes concentrations. However, little is known about how plants react microplastics with concentrations shapes. To this end, we conducted factorial pot experiment wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) which mixed polystyrene (PS) (bead, fiber powder) at of 0, 1, 3 5%. Although all PS significantly reduced morphological growth traits, powder shape was microplastic that plant height (by 58–60%), fresh biomass 54–55%) dry 61–62%) most, especially 3% 5% compared 0% PS. Similar negative effects were also observed for root length weight concentrations, regardless shape. A concentration-dependent reduction leaf area index (LAI) observed. Interestingly, increasing concentration tended up-regulate activity antioxidant enzymes shapes, indicating potential complexity highly time-dependent response related various reactive oxygen species (ROS). Importantly, caused significant chlorophyll pigmentation photosynthetic rate. For transpiration rate, stomatal conductance intercellular CO2 concentration, on increased increase Overall, concluded higher potentially more devastating physiological biochemical attributes wheat, evidenced by pigments gas exchange parameters We recommend further research experiments not only translocation but tissue-specific retention sizes crops fully understand their impact food safety.

Язык: Английский

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Far‐Reaching Impact of Microplastics on Agricultural Systems: Options for Mitigation and Adaptation

Land Degradation and Development, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 19, 2025

ABSTRACT Microplastics has emerged as a pervasive pollutant with far‐reaching implications for agriculture. This review paper evaluates existing research on microplastics in agricultural systems, exploring their impacts land, crop growth, farm animals, and consumer health. Using the PRISMA framework systematic process, 811 papers were identified initial search, only 164 used this study after following inclusion exclusion criteria. Our found that high‐density polyethylene polyvinyl chloride are widely plastic types agriculture, followed by polypropylene, polystyrene, terephthalate. prevalence is likely due to extensive use of plastics agriculture such mulching, handling harvested products, bags fertilizers pesticides, samplings, seed storage. The serious adverse consequences crops, animal health, soil, consumers. It also highlights need comprehensive strategies mitigate these impacts, using bioplastics, application treated water irrigation, proper disposal plastics, sustainable practices. Adaptation measures soil remediation, different microplastic removal technologies, policy interventions emerge crucial strategy cope pollution. concludes call interdisciplinary better understand complexities pollution develop solutions protect natural ecosystems, human food security.

Язык: Английский

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Global Occurrence and Environmental Fate of Microplastics in Stormwater Runoff: Unlock the In-depth Knowledge on Nature-Based Removal Strategies

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 263(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 28, 2025

Язык: Английский

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