Nanoplastic toxicity towards freshwater organisms
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UAM. Departamento de BiologíaPublisher
OAEDate
2022-11-16Citation
10.20517/wecn.2022.17
Water Emerging Contaminants and Nanoplastics 1.4 (2022): 19
ISSN
2831-2597 (online)DOI
10.20517/wecn.2022.17Project
Gobierno de España. PID2020-113769RB-C21/22; Gobierno de España. TED2021-131609B-C32/33Editor's Version
https://doi.org/ 10.20517/wecn.2022.17Subjects
Nanoplastics; Environmental Fate; Toxicity; Freshwater Organisms; Biología y Biomedicina / BiologíaRights
© The Author(s) 2022Abstract
The fragmentation of plastic litter into smaller fragments, known as microplastics and nanoplastics, as well as their toxicity and environmental distribution have become issues of high concern. Furthermore, the popularization of bioplastics as a greener substitute of conventional plastics represents a challenge for the scientific community in view of the limited information concerning their potential environmental impact. Here, we systematically review the recent knowledge on the environmental fate and toxicity of nanoplastics in freshwater environments, discuss the results obtained thus far, and identify several knowledge gaps. The sources and environmental behaviors of nanoplastics are presented considering in vitro, in vivo, and in silico studies with a focus on real exposure scenarios. Their effects on organisms are classified based on their impact on primary producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers. This review covers the main results published in the last four years, including all relevant experimental details and highlighting the most sensitive toxicity endpoints assessed in every study. We also include more recent results on the potential environmental impact of biodegradable plastics, a type of material belonging to the category of bioplastics for which there are still scarce data. This review identifies a need to perform studies using secondary nanoplastics rather than synthetic commercial materials as well as to include other polymers apart from polystyrene. There is also an urgent need to assess the possible risk of nanoplastics at environmentally realistic concentrations using sublethal endpoints and long-term assays
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Google Scholar:Tamayo Belda, Miguel
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Pulido-Reyes, Gerardo
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Rosal, Roberto
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Fernández Piñas, Francisca
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