Environmental and health hazard ranking and assessment of plastic polymers based on chemical composition.

By Delilah Lithner, Ȧ. Larsson, G. Dave. Science of the Total Environment, 2011

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Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: a review. (2011, background): “These additives are an environmental concern since they both extend the degradation times of plastic and may, in addition, leach out, introducing potentially hazardous chemicals to biota (Barnes et al., 2009; Lithner et al., 2011; Talsness et al., 2009).”
Contamination of beach sediments of a subalpine lake with microplastic particles. (2013, neutral): “Polyvinylchloride was ranked among the five most hazardous plastic polymers and by far the most additives are used for its production [9].”
Characteristic of microplastics in the atmospheric fallout from Dongguan city, China: preliminary research and first evidence (2017, background): “2014; Turner and Holmes 2015) absorbed from the surrounding environment, and the unreacted monomers, additives, and other ingredients in microplastics (Lithner et al. 2011; Rochman et al. 2013), are potentially exposed to the organisms.”