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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Nanoplastics released from daily used silicone and latex products during mechanical breakdown
Contributor:
Ekvall, Mikael T.;
Gimskog, Isabella;
Kelpsiene, Egle;
Mellring, Alice;
Månsson, Alma;
Lundqvist, Martin;
Cedervall, Tommy
Published:
Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023
Published in:
PLOS ONE, 18 (2023) 9, Seite e0289377
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0289377
ISSN:
1932-6203
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
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.