Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations
The negative impact of plastic accumulation in aquatic ecosystems is a known and undeniable problem. However, while many of the scientific community’s countermeasures against such accumulation target the effects of the most common commodity plastics, the consequences of so-called ‘biodegradable’ pla...
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| author | Ribba, Laura |
| author2 | Lopretti, Mary Isabel Montes de Oca-Vásquez, Gabriela Batista, Diego Goyanes, Silvia Vega-Baudrit, José Roberto |
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| author_browse | Batista, Diego Goyanes, Silvia Lopretti, Mary Isabel Montes de Oca-Vásquez, Gabriela Ribba, Laura Vega-Baudrit, José Roberto |
| author_facet | Ribba, Laura Lopretti, Mary Isabel Montes de Oca-Vásquez, Gabriela Batista, Diego Goyanes, Silvia Vega-Baudrit, José Roberto |
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| dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv | Ribba Laura Lopretti Mary Isabel, Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias. Centro de Investigaciones Nucleares. Montes de Oca-Vásquez Gabriela Batista Diego Goyanes Silvia Vega-Baudrit José Roberto |
| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Ribba, Laura Lopretti, Mary Isabel Montes de Oca-Vásquez, Gabriela Batista, Diego Goyanes, Silvia Vega-Baudrit, José Roberto |
| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2022 2023-08-18T15:17:40Z 2023-08-18T15:17:40Z |
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| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | Ribba, L, Lopretti, M, Montes de Oca-Vásquez, G, [y otros autores]. "Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations". Environmental Research Letters. [en línea] 2022, 17: 033003.24 h. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac548d 1748-9326 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/39535 10.1088/1748-9326/ac548d |
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| dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv | IOP Publishing Ltd |
| dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv | Environmental Research Letters, 2022, 17: 033003. |
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| dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv | Microplastics Biodegradable Term |
| dc.title.none.fl_str_mv | Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations |
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| description | The negative impact of plastic accumulation in aquatic ecosystems is a known and undeniable problem. However, while many of the scientific community’s countermeasures against such accumulation target the effects of the most common commodity plastics, the consequences of so-called ‘biodegradable’ plastics in those ecosystems are seldom discussed. After all, though their alleged biodegradability sustains the widespread belief that they are harmless to the environment, because a material’s fate determines its classification as biodegradable or not, many plastics classified as biodegradable do not in fact meet the required norms and standards of biodegradability in aquatic ecosystems. Furthermore, during the past five years, the scientific community has shown that the degradation of such plastics can generate bio-microplastics that have effects similar to or worse than those of conventional microplastics (MPs). Against that background, this review details the latest findings regarding how biodegradable plastics can influence aquatic ecosystems and thus cause adverse health effects in living organisms and/or act as vectors of chemical pollutants. Beyond that, it identifies the key aspects of such trends to be investigated in greater depth, including the need to consider a wider variety of biodegradable plastics and to develop systematic methods that allow quantifying and identifying the remains of those pollutants in living species. Other aspects worth considering include the arrival and mobilisation dynamics of MPs in oceans. The ways in which small animals fed by filtering (e.g. red crabs and other zooplankton organisms) move MPs through the water column and into food webs also merit attention, for those MPs are ingested by numerous species at different trophic levels, at which point bioaccumulation in tissues has to be considered as a factor of toxicity. This review closes with a series of recommendations and perspectives for future studies on ‘biodegradable plastics’ in aquatic ecosystems. |
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| spelling | Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendationsRibba, LauraLopretti, Mary IsabelMontes de Oca-Vásquez, GabrielaBatista, DiegoGoyanes, SilviaVega-Baudrit, José RobertoMicroplasticsBiodegradableTermThe negative impact of plastic accumulation in aquatic ecosystems is a known and undeniable problem. However, while many of the scientific community’s countermeasures against such accumulation target the effects of the most common commodity plastics, the consequences of so-called ‘biodegradable’ plastics in those ecosystems are seldom discussed. After all, though their alleged biodegradability sustains the widespread belief that they are harmless to the environment, because a material’s fate determines its classification as biodegradable or not, many plastics classified as biodegradable do not in fact meet the required norms and standards of biodegradability in aquatic ecosystems. Furthermore, during the past five years, the scientific community has shown that the degradation of such plastics can generate bio-microplastics that have effects similar to or worse than those of conventional microplastics (MPs). Against that background, this review details the latest findings regarding how biodegradable plastics can influence aquatic ecosystems and thus cause adverse health effects in living organisms and/or act as vectors of chemical pollutants. Beyond that, it identifies the key aspects of such trends to be investigated in greater depth, including the need to consider a wider variety of biodegradable plastics and to develop systematic methods that allow quantifying and identifying the remains of those pollutants in living species. Other aspects worth considering include the arrival and mobilisation dynamics of MPs in oceans. The ways in which small animals fed by filtering (e.g. red crabs and other zooplankton organisms) move MPs through the water column and into food webs also merit attention, for those MPs are ingested by numerous species at different trophic levels, at which point bioaccumulation in tissues has to be considered as a factor of toxicity. This review closes with a series of recommendations and perspectives for future studies on ‘biodegradable plastics’ in aquatic ecosystems.IOP Publishing LtdRibba LauraLopretti Mary Isabel, Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias. Centro de Investigaciones Nucleares.Montes de Oca-Vásquez GabrielaBatista DiegoGoyanes SilviaVega-Baudrit José Roberto2023-08-18T15:17:40Z2023-08-18T15:17:40Z2022Artículoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion24 h.application/pdfRibba, L, Lopretti, M, Montes de Oca-Vásquez, G, [y otros autores]. "Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations". Environmental Research Letters. [en línea] 2022, 17: 033003.24 h. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac548d1748-9326https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/3953510.1088/1748-9326/ac548dreponame:COLIBRIinstname:Universidad de la Repúblicainstacron:Universidad de la Repúblicaen_USengEnvironmental Research Letters, 2022, 17: 033003.Las obras depositadas en el Repositorio se rigen por la Ordenanza de los Derechos de la Propiedad Intelectual de la Universidad de la República.(Res. Nº 91 de C.D.C. de 8/III/1994 – D.O. 7/IV/1994) y por la Ordenanza del Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de la República (Res. Nº 16 de C.D.C. de 07/10/2014)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessLicencia Creative Commons Atribución (CC - By 4.0)oai:colibri.udelar.edu.uy:20.500.12008/395352026-04-14T10:10:14Z |
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| title | Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations |
| title_full | Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations |
| title_fullStr | Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations |
| title_short | Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations |
| title_sort | Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations |
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