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I don't doubt that microplastics are not good for the environment and organisms that consume them, but can you provide a citation for the toxin concentration cl

I don't doubt that microplastics are not good for the environment and organisms that consume them, but can you provide a citation for the toxin concentration claim so I can learn more about it?

A2017U1 8y ago
Top 3 results here should do fine. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nanoplastic%20toxin%20concentration https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nanoplastic%20toxin%20...
Reelin 8y ago
The wording of the grandparent comment was sloppy. You might try DOI 10.1039/C8NR09321K (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/nr/c8nr09321k https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/nr/c8nr0...). In summary, for whatever reason it seems that nanoparticles of some plastics readily penetrate and accumulate in biological tissues. There are also chemicals that will adsorb onto these nanoparticles. This can make a chemical at a given concentration more toxic to an organism, or even potentially make something toxic that was previously not.