Review of the artificially-accelerated aging technology and ecological risk of microplastics

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 768; p. 144969
• Main Authors: Liu, Peng, Shi, Yanqi, Wu, Xiaowei, Wang, Hanyu, Huang, Hexinyue, Guo, Xuetao, Gao, Shixiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 10.05.2021
• Subjects: Biofilm; environment; heat treatment; ingestion; irradiation; labor; Laboratory-accelerated aging; Leachate; Microplastics; oxidation; Risk; toxicity; Biofilm; Risk; Microplastics; Laboratory-accelerated aging; Leachate

After being discarded into the environment, the microplastics (MPs) will undergo weathering effects. However, the low degradation rate of MPs in natural processes greatly limits the understanding of long-term aging behavior. By critically reviewing 82 articles in Web of Science from 2015 to 2020, th...