Transport and release of chemicals from plastics to the environment and to wildlife

By Emma L. Teuten, Jovita M. Saquing, D. Knappe, M. Barlaz, S. Jonsson, A. Björn, S. Rowland, Richard C. Thompson, T. Galloway, Rei Yamashita and 17 more. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution

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Global Assessment of Bisphenol A in the Environment (2015, background): “…include those associated with disposal or waste including effluent discharge from municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), leaching from landfills, combustion of domestic waste, and degradation of plastics in the environment (Teuten et al. 2009; Fu and Kawamura 2010; Flint et al. 2012).”
Cetaceans and Marine Debris: The Great Unknown (2012, background): “The chemicals contained within plastics debris include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, petroleum hydrocarbons, organochlorine pesticides (2,2′bis(p-chlorophenyl)-1,1,1-trichloroethane, hexachlorinated hexanes), polybrominated diphenyl ethers, alkylphenols, and bis”
Microplastic moves pollutants and additives to worms, reducing functions linked to health and biodiversity. (2013, positive): “This provides the first conclusive evidence showing transfer from microplastic and supports predictions from modeling of desorption of phenanthrene that has been presorbed to polyethylene [9, 12, 13].”
Microplastics in Fish and Shellfish – A Threat to Seafood Safety? (2020, background): “They reported that PAHs, PCBs, and PBDEs increased substantially in all groups of fish (control feed, virgin plastic feed, and marine contaminated plastic feed), and at the end of feeding period, only the concentration of PBDEs was significantly higher in the fish fed the contaminated microplastic.”
The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: a review. (2013, background): “The most common rafting species are from the phyla Cnidaria, Crustacea and Ectoprocta (Thiel and Gutow, 2005).”
Plastic Accumulation in the Mediterranean Sea (2015, background): “Several studies suggest that some plastic-associated contaminants may be transferred to organisms during digestion [36, 43], and recent laboratory experiments indicate that plastic-associated contaminants may alter endocrine system function of fish [44].”
The presence of microplastics in the digestive tract of commercial fishes off Pantai Indah Kapuk coast, Jakarta, Indonesia (2019, background): “Microplastics can be translocated from lower trophic level organisms to higher trophic level organisms through the food web (Teuten et al. 2009; Anastasopoulou et al. 2013; Pegado et al. 2018).”
Trophic transfer of microplastics does not affect fish personality (2017, background): “…and the absorbed contaminants are known endocrine disruptors, carcinogens and mutagens (Lithner, Damberg, Dave, & Larsson, 2009) and it is thought that contaminants may transfer from plastics to organisms following ingestion (Teuten, Rowland, Galloway, & Thompson, 2007; Teuten et al., 2009).”