Microplastics from consumer plastic food containers: Are we consuming it?

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	Microplastics from consumer plastic food containers: Are we consuming it?
	Fadare, Oluniyi O.; Wan, Bin; Guo, Liang-Hong; Zhao, Lixia
刊名	CHEMOSPHERE
	2020-08
卷号	253 页码:1-15
关键词	Unintentionally produced microplastics Human exposure Plastic containers SEM
ISSN号	0045-6535
英文摘要	Microplastic (MP) accumulation in the environment has become an issue of human and environmental importance. Great efforts were made recently to identify the sources of MP exposure to humans and their release into the environment. Here, we employed spectroscopic techniques to identify and characterize MP in consumer plastic food containers that are, in huge quantity, used for food delivery and disposable plastic cups for daily drinking. We determined the average weight of isolated MP per pack to be 12 +/- 5.12 mg, 38 +/- 5.29 mg, and 3 +/- 1.13 mg for the round-shaped, rectangular-shaped plastic container and disposable plastic cups, respectively, with various morphological features including cubic, spherical, rod-like as well as irregular shapes, which may either be consumed by humans or released into the environment. This study demonstrates that new plastic containers can be an important source of direct human and environmental exposure to microplastics. Most importantly, our results indicated that necessary attention must be given to morphological features of realistic MPs when evaluating their risks to humans and the environment. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/45185]
专题	生态环境研究中心_中国科学院环境生物技术重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fadare, Oluniyi O.,Wan, Bin,Guo, Liang-Hong,et al. Microplastics from consumer plastic food containers: Are we consuming it?[J]. CHEMOSPHERE,2020,253:1-15.
APA	Fadare, Oluniyi O.,Wan, Bin,Guo, Liang-Hong,&Zhao, Lixia.(2020).Microplastics from consumer plastic food containers: Are we consuming it?.CHEMOSPHERE,253,1-15.
MLA	Fadare, Oluniyi O.,et al."Microplastics from consumer plastic food containers: Are we consuming it?".CHEMOSPHERE 253(2020):1-15.