Environmental Science & Technology 2021, 55 Microplastics Originating from Polymer Blends: An Emerging Threat?. Xin-Feng Wei, Fritjof Nilsson, Haiyan Yin, Mikael S.Environmental Science & Technology 2022, 56 Bacterial Community under the Influence of Microplastics in Indoor Environment and the Health Hazards Associated with Antibiotic Resistance Genes. Chu Peng, Xiaofei Zhang, Xinyi Zhang, Chunguang Liu, Zeyou Chen, Hongwen Sun, Lei Wang.ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2022, 10 Sustainable Alternatives to Nondegradable Medical Plastics. Dai-Hua Jiang, Toshifumi Satoh, Shih Huang Tung, Chi-Ching Kuo.Environmental Science & Technology Letters 2022, 9 Integrating a Chemicals Perspective into the Global Plastic Treaty. This article is cited by 142 publications. Ultimately, plastic materials degrade to micron-sized particles (microplastics), which are persistent in the environment and present a potential source of harm for organisms. The fragmentation of the material into increasingly smaller pieces is an unavoidable stage of the degradation process. Common plastics such as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are extremely persistent in the environment, where they undergo very slow fragmentation (projected to take centuries) into small particles through photo-, physical, and biological degradation processes 1.
Unfortunately, many of the most advantageous properties of plastics such as their chemical, physical and biological inertness and durability present challenges when plastic is released into the environment. Thus, plastics contain a complex blend of stabilizers that prevent them from degrading too quickly. Plastics are one of the most widely used materials and, in most cases, they are designed to have long life times.
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