Patrizia Pfohl, Markus Rueckel, Lars Meyer, Glauco Battagliarin, Andreas Künkel, Thorsten Hüffer, Michael Zumstein, Thilo Hofmann, Wendel Wohlleben
{"title":"Influence of plastic shape on interim fragmentation of compostable materials during composting","authors":"Patrizia Pfohl, Markus Rueckel, Lars Meyer, Glauco Battagliarin, Andreas Künkel, Thorsten Hüffer, Michael Zumstein, Thilo Hofmann, Wendel Wohlleben","doi":"10.1186/s43591-024-00084-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-024-00084-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74190,"journal":{"name":"Microplastics and nanoplastics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140223873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Vanavermaete, Amy Lusher, Jakob Strand, Esteban Abad, Marinella Farré, Emilie Kallenbach, Michael Dekimpe, K. Verlé, Sebastian Primpke, Stefano Aliani, Bavo De Witte
{"title":"Plastics in biota: technological readiness level of current methodologies","authors":"David Vanavermaete, Amy Lusher, Jakob Strand, Esteban Abad, Marinella Farré, Emilie Kallenbach, Michael Dekimpe, K. Verlé, Sebastian Primpke, Stefano Aliani, Bavo De Witte","doi":"10.1186/s43591-024-00083-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-024-00083-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74190,"journal":{"name":"Microplastics and nanoplastics","volume":"15 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140239224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Farm animals as a critical link between environmental and human health impacts of micro-and nanoplastics","authors":"H. Aardema, A. Vethaak, J. Kamstra, J. Legler","doi":"10.1186/s43591-024-00082-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-024-00082-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74190,"journal":{"name":"Microplastics and nanoplastics","volume":"16 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140240681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nelle Meyers, Kathrin Kopke, Natalja Buhhalko, Karin Mattsson, Colin R. Janssen, Gert Everaert, B. De Witte
{"title":"Value for money: a cost-effectiveness analysis of microplastic analytics in seawater","authors":"Nelle Meyers, Kathrin Kopke, Natalja Buhhalko, Karin Mattsson, Colin R. Janssen, Gert Everaert, B. De Witte","doi":"10.1186/s43591-024-00081-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-024-00081-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74190,"journal":{"name":"Microplastics and nanoplastics","volume":" 528","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139787363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nelle Meyers, Kathrin Kopke, Natalja Buhhalko, Karin Mattsson, Colin R. Janssen, Gert Everaert, B. De Witte
{"title":"Value for money: a cost-effectiveness analysis of microplastic analytics in seawater","authors":"Nelle Meyers, Kathrin Kopke, Natalja Buhhalko, Karin Mattsson, Colin R. Janssen, Gert Everaert, B. De Witte","doi":"10.1186/s43591-024-00081-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-024-00081-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74190,"journal":{"name":"Microplastics and nanoplastics","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139846901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A rapid method to quantify sub-micrometer polystyrene particles in aqueous model systems by TOC analysis","authors":"Johanna Schmidtmann, Stefan Peiffer","doi":"10.1186/s43591-024-00080-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-024-00080-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74190,"journal":{"name":"Microplastics and nanoplastics","volume":" 1158","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139617239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Munz, Constantin Loui, Denise Postler, M. Pittroff, S. Oswald
{"title":"Transport and retention of micro-polystyrene in coarse riverbed sediments: effects of flow velocity, particle and sediment sizes","authors":"M. Munz, Constantin Loui, Denise Postler, M. Pittroff, S. Oswald","doi":"10.1186/s43591-023-00077-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-023-00077-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74190,"journal":{"name":"Microplastics and nanoplastics","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139621173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lisa Marie Oehlschlägel, Sebastian Schmid, Moritz Lehmann, Stephan Gekle, Andreas Held
{"title":"Water–air transfer rates of microplastic particles through bubble bursting as a function of particle size","authors":"Lisa Marie Oehlschlägel, Sebastian Schmid, Moritz Lehmann, Stephan Gekle, Andreas Held","doi":"10.1186/s43591-023-00079-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-023-00079-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74190,"journal":{"name":"Microplastics and nanoplastics","volume":"51 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139441246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandra Foetisch, Adrian Grunder, Benjamin Kuster, Tobias Stalder, Moritz Bigalke
{"title":"All black: a microplastic extraction combined with colour-based analysis allows identification and characterisation of tire wear particles (TWP) in soils.","authors":"Alexandra Foetisch, Adrian Grunder, Benjamin Kuster, Tobias Stalder, Moritz Bigalke","doi":"10.1186/s43591-024-00102-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s43591-024-00102-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While tire wear particles (TWP) have been estimated to represent more than 90% of the total microplastic (MP) emitted in European countries and may have environmental health effects, only few data about TWP concentrations and characteristics are available today. The lack of data stems from the fact that no standardized, cost efficient or accessible extraction and identification method is available yet. We present a method allowing the extraction of TWP from soil, performing analysis with a conventional optical microscope and a machine learning approach to identify TWP in soil based on their colour. The lowest size of TWP which could be measured reliably with an acceptable recovery using our experimental set-up was 35 µm. Further improvements would be possible given more advanced technical infrastructure (higher optical magnification and image quality). Our method showed a mean recovery of 85% in the 35-2000 µm particle size range and no blank contamination. We tested for possible interference from charcoal (as another black soil component with similar properties) in the soils and found a reduction of the interference from charcoal by 92% during extraction. We applied our method to a highway adjacent soil at 1 m, 2 m, 5 m, and 10 m and detected TWP in all samples with a tendency to higher concentrations at 1 m and 2 m from the road compared to 10 m from the road. The observed TWP concentrations were in the same order of magnitude as what was previously reported in literature in highway adjacent soils. These results demonstrate the potential of the method to provide quantitative data on the occurrence and characteristics of TWP in the environment. The method can be easily implemented in many labs, and help to address our knowledge gap regarding TWP concentrations in soils.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s43591-024-00102-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":74190,"journal":{"name":"Microplastics and nanoplastics","volume":"4 1","pages":"25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11525289/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142570552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jordan A Pitt, Scott M Gallager, Sarah Youngs, Anna P M Michel, Mark E Hahn, Neelakanteswar Aluru
{"title":"The abundance and localization of environmental microplastics in gastrointestinal tract and muscle of Atlantic killifish (<i>Fundulus heteroclitus</i>): a pilot study.","authors":"Jordan A Pitt, Scott M Gallager, Sarah Youngs, Anna P M Michel, Mark E Hahn, Neelakanteswar Aluru","doi":"10.1186/s43591-024-00101-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s43591-024-00101-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microplastics (MPs) have been found in a diverse range of organisms across trophic levels. While a majority of the information on organismal exposure to plastics in the environment comes from gastrointestinal (GI) data, the prevalence of MP particles in other tissues is not well understood. Additionally, many studies have not been able to detect the smallest, most prevalent, MPs (1 µm - 5 mm) that are the most likely to distribute to tissues in the body. To address these knowledge gaps, MPs in the GI tract and muscle of Atlantic killifish (<i>Fundulus heteroclitus</i>) collected from two sites (Falmouth and Bourne) on Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod, MA were quantified down to 2 µm in size. Eight fish from Falmouth and 10 fish Bourne site were analyzed. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy were used to identify all particles. The mean concentrations of MPs in the GI tract and muscle from fish collected from Falmouth was 85.5 ± 70.2 and 11 ± 12.5 particles per gram wet weight, respectively. Fish collected from Bourne site had mean particle concentrations of 12.2 ± 18.1 and 1.69 ± 5.36 particles per gram wet weight. Of the 2,008 particles analyzed in various fish tissue samples, only 3.4% (69 particles) were identified as plastic; polymers included nylon, polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyurethane. MPs detected in the GI tract samples also tended to be more diverse in both size and polymer type than those found in the muscle. We found that MPs < 50 µm, which are often not analyzed in the literature, were the most common in both the GI tract and muscle samples. There was not a significant correlation between the MP content in the muscle compared to the GI tract, indicating that GI tract MP abundance cannot be used to predict non-GI tract tissue MP content; however, MP abundance in muscle correlated with fish total length, suggesting potential bioaccumulation of these small MPs.</p><p><strong>Graphical abstract: </strong></p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s43591-024-00101-w.</p>","PeriodicalId":74190,"journal":{"name":"Microplastics and nanoplastics","volume":"4 1","pages":"23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11527914/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142570553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}