Microplastics release from victuals packaging materials during daily usage
Abstract Plastic packaging materials are widely used because of their advantages of light weight, low cost, and convenience, especially as victuals packaging materials. Approximately 146 million metric tons of plastics were used for packaging in 2015, but most of these plastics had already been disc...
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| author | Qing‐Fang Guan Huai‐Bin Yang Yu‐Xiang Zhao Zi‐Meng Han Zhang‐Chi Ling Kun‐Peng Yang Chong‐Han Yin Shu‐Hong Yu |
| author_facet | Qing‐Fang Guan Huai‐Bin Yang Yu‐Xiang Zhao Zi‐Meng Han Zhang‐Chi Ling Kun‐Peng Yang Chong‐Han Yin Shu‐Hong Yu |
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| description | Abstract Plastic packaging materials are widely used because of their advantages of light weight, low cost, and convenience, especially as victuals packaging materials. Approximately 146 million metric tons of plastics were used for packaging in 2015, but most of these plastics had already been discarded and followed by serious white pollution. What's worse, the victuals packaging materials, especially polystyrene (PS) foam containers, can release microplastics (MPs) during daily usage. Through the combination of various appropriate chemical (eg, spectroscopy) and physical (eg, microscopy) characterization and analysis, the existence of MPs is proved and MPs can be intuitively observed. Although the impacts of MPs on ecosystems and human health are still under discussion, existing studies have shown that MPs can be integrated into habitats through soil transportation, affecting the health of various terrestrial invertebrates. Faced with this shocking reality, reducing the use of PS foam containers at high temperatures and developing healthy materials to substitute these plastics are promising solutions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-be2df939b53941f4ae97dacb7143481a2022-12-21T22:25:37ZengWileyEcoMat2567-31732021-06-0133n/an/a10.1002/eom2.12107Microplastics release from victuals packaging materials during daily usageQing‐Fang Guan0Huai‐Bin Yang1Yu‐Xiang Zhao2Zi‐Meng Han3Zhang‐Chi Ling4Kun‐Peng Yang5Chong‐Han Yin6Shu‐Hong Yu7Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry Institute of Biomimetic Materials & Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei ChinaDivision of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry Institute of Biomimetic Materials & Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei ChinaDivision of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry Institute of Biomimetic Materials & Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei ChinaDivision of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry Institute of Biomimetic Materials & Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei ChinaDivision of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry Institute of Biomimetic Materials & Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei ChinaDivision of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry Institute of Biomimetic Materials & Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei ChinaDivision of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry Institute of Biomimetic Materials & Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei ChinaDivision of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry Institute of Biomimetic Materials & Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei ChinaAbstract Plastic packaging materials are widely used because of their advantages of light weight, low cost, and convenience, especially as victuals packaging materials. Approximately 146 million metric tons of plastics were used for packaging in 2015, but most of these plastics had already been discarded and followed by serious white pollution. What's worse, the victuals packaging materials, especially polystyrene (PS) foam containers, can release microplastics (MPs) during daily usage. Through the combination of various appropriate chemical (eg, spectroscopy) and physical (eg, microscopy) characterization and analysis, the existence of MPs is proved and MPs can be intuitively observed. Although the impacts of MPs on ecosystems and human health are still under discussion, existing studies have shown that MPs can be integrated into habitats through soil transportation, affecting the health of various terrestrial invertebrates. Faced with this shocking reality, reducing the use of PS foam containers at high temperatures and developing healthy materials to substitute these plastics are promising solutions.https://doi.org/10.1002/eom2.12107chemical and physical characterizationsmicroplasticsplastic wastespolystyrene foam containersvictuals packaging materials |
| spellingShingle | Qing‐Fang Guan Huai‐Bin Yang Yu‐Xiang Zhao Zi‐Meng Han Zhang‐Chi Ling Kun‐Peng Yang Chong‐Han Yin Shu‐Hong Yu Microplastics release from victuals packaging materials during daily usage EcoMat chemical and physical characterizations microplastics plastic wastes polystyrene foam containers victuals packaging materials |
| title | Microplastics release from victuals packaging materials during daily usage |
| title_full | Microplastics release from victuals packaging materials during daily usage |
| title_fullStr | Microplastics release from victuals packaging materials during daily usage |
| title_full_unstemmed | Microplastics release from victuals packaging materials during daily usage |
| title_short | Microplastics release from victuals packaging materials during daily usage |
| title_sort | microplastics release from victuals packaging materials during daily usage |
| topic | chemical and physical characterizations microplastics plastic wastes polystyrene foam containers victuals packaging materials |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/eom2.12107 |
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